IBM has plans to purchase Sun Microsystems, and is talking with them to make a deal. They are willing to pay at least $6.5 billion in cash to Sun, if the deal goed through. And that might even happen as early as this week.
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.
I wrote the article. Changed to billion. Thanks for correcting me