2009/3/19 Brian J. Murrell <br...@interlinx.bc.ca>: > Hrm. You don't seem to have a grasp on how things work in the real > world...
Hello Brian, Thanks for enlightening me about what goes on in the "real world" outside my bubble. I forgot to say I was an IBM customer and had contact with top execs until not too long ago. That's why I fear an IBM acquisition of an innovative, relatively small firm like Sun. Buy hey, WTF do I know... Sun Micro Troops Fearful, Incredulous About IBM http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2009/03/reuters_us_sunmicro_ibm_profile_sb A Blue Sun is a Black Day for IT http://blogs.computerworld.com/a_blue_sun_is_a_black_day_for_it Why Cisco, not IBM, should buy Sun http://gigaom.com/2009/03/18/why-cisco-not-ibm-should-buy-sun/ Sun deal could face regulatory hurdles http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/69c82a3c-13ec-11de-9e32-0000779fd2ac.html Ballmer: IBM-Sun deal could help Microsoft http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/031909-ballmer-ibm-sun-deal-could-help.html IBM-Sun merger called anticompetitive http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/integration/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=215901179&subSection=All+Stories "As a business technology consultant with a long and painful history of connection to IBM, I am ambivalent as to any benefits of their acquisition of SUN for the future of UNIX and particularly GNU/Linux. With all that powerhouse of competitive technology, IBM is unlikely to challenge Microsoft to any greater degree than now - even in Banking/financial institutions where infrastructure software from Microsoft is almost non-existent. Sun recently saw the light in regards open sourcing Java, Solaris, OpenOffice, etc. - all of which are likely to "die on the vine" so-to-speak since they have no place in IBM's Global Services offerings that are IBM VMS and Microsoft specific. -- W. Anderson wander...@kimalcorp.org" Source: http://blog.internetnews.com/skerner/2009/03/ibm-sun-acquisition-good-for-u.html Gregory Stec said: IBM is service (solution) seller. IBM is interested in Sun for Sun customer base and for technology. In my opinion this is bad for open source application like OpenOffice. March 18, 2009 12:24 PM > Revolt? The employees have no say in this matter. Of course not. If half the company employees walk away after an acquisition (see AOL's purchase of Netscape), then the CEO and the board better evaluate different offers, don't you think? > The duty of the executive in a public company is to the shareholders first. > That's a > fiduciary (IOW, legal) duty, not just one the executive decides on their > own. That must be why the Yahoo CEO ended in jail after refusing to be swallowed into Microsoft, right?. >> Even under Dell or HP it'll fare better than under the weight of Big >> Blue. Or better yet, take it of the stock markets and become privately >> owned... > > Yeah. Just crack that gumball machine open and buy back all of the > publicly traded stock. Great idea. I wonder why the "ponytail CEO" > didn't think of that one. I don't have the quote handy, but I read somewhere that former Sun execs were looking for other buyers. BTW: Do you own IBM or Sun stock and are hoping for a quick buck?. Just curious. I don't own any stock in any tech firms. Yet I've seen enough of the software landscape since the early 1990s to date to comment on the dangers of this merger. > > Now, as for the real world, VirtualBox is FOSS. If you don't like the > direction it goes in, you are free to take the source and do something > new and different with it. Great, I will ask you when there's an odd bug in Virtualbox then and IBM has decided to fire Frank Mehnert and his Vbox team Virtualbox doesn't suit IBM's agenda of the day and has put Virtualbox in "maintenance mode" (now renamed IBM Wesphere Enterprise Virtualization Server for z-Series") at their research centre in Beijing, incidentally making it "an integral part" of another piece of IBM middleware software junk. [I won't comment further, as this is kinda off-topic for this list] FC _______________________________________________ vbox-users mailing list vbox-users@virtualbox.org http://vbox.innotek.de/mailman/listinfo/vbox-users
