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A corporate email carried an acrostic
In a January 2010 email marking Sun’s acquisition by Oracle, Jonathan Schwartz arranged the first letters of the first seven paragraphs to spell Beat IBM. An acrostic allows the initials to carry another message alongside the ordinary text.
The message offered a second direction of reading.
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