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Job Offer: Doodle, Software Engineer

Doodle, a Swiss startup from Zurich has just informed, that the team is looking for a new rockstar software engineer for their online scheduling service doodle.com. What you should have: a university degree in computer science or a closely related field strong software-engineering skills fluency in English or German rockstar potential Pluses are experience in […]

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Sun Microsystems & Oracle – News and Questions

I’ve just received the newsletter from Sun Microsystems Switzerland regarding the acquisition/merger of Sun into Oracle. On April 20, 2009, Oracle announced a definitive agreement to acquire Sun Microsystems. The proposed transaction is subject to Sun stockholder approval (JAVA), certain regulatory approvals and customary closing conditions. Until the deal closes, each company will continue to […]

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IBM in Talks to Buy Sun?

via WallStreetJournal o rly? SUN (JAVA): 3,723,526,925 US$ current stock value. IBM wants to pay up to US$ 6.5 billion: If the deal does go through, which could happen as early as this week, IBM is likely to pay at least $6.5 billion in cash to acquire Sun, the people said. That would translate into […]

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