Shares of Sun Microsystems Inc. (Nasdaq: JAVA) soared $4.01 to $8.98 on a Wall Street Journal report that it was talks with International Business Machines (NYSE: IBM) to be acquired for at least $6.5 billion in cash. IBM stock fell $2.12 to $90.79.
IBM May Acquire Sun
March 18, 2009 at 13:23 PM EDT
