On Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:47:54 +0100, Invisible wrote:

>>> Sun? Heh. I'm still getting used to the fact that now when I install
>>> OpenOffice, it was Oracle plastered all over it. (I'm pretty sure
>>> under Sun the corporate branding was much less in-your-face. Also, the
>>> colour scheme was nicer. Oracle has given it a kind of blank-white
>>> look, like they didn't finish it or something...)
>>
>> That's one reason I use the Novell edition. :-)
> 
> Actually, come to think of it, I'm still getting used to the fact that a
> huge, highly successful company like Sun somehow got bought by a much
> smaller company like Oracle. You wouldn't have thought they could do
> that...

It happens all the time.  I worked in the food & drug retail industry 
before coming to Novell, and the company I worked for was acquired by a 
smaller company (both were in the Fortune 50, though).

Jim

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