-----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Eric Chevalier Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:21 AM To: [email protected] Subject: IBM in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems
This morning's Wall Street Journal is reporting that IBM is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems for as much as $6.5 billion. A deal could take place as early as this week. "The deal furthers a recent pattern of consolidation in the tech industry around the services, hardware and software used to run data centers, the big computing rooms that store and process information. In recent years, the market for servers has shifted from the huge, custom-built 'mainframes' that IBM dominates to vast numbers of standardized computers. By pushing standardized servers, H-P has made inroads on IBM. In the meantime, Sun has suffered, as its strategy of using its own operating system on standardized software has failed to propel new growth." <SNIP> Custom built (as he spits coffee all over his LCD)!?!? A few coughs and gasps with the "...own operating system on standardized software..." has me thinking they don't have a good editing staff any more. Shouldn't that have been HARDWARE? Seems to me that the mainframes are more standard than not with more standard devices to attach. Seems that journalists should get out more and KNOW more before writing this junk. Ah, but what do I know? I'm just a balding middle-aged "white" guy who has been working on/with computers since about 1968. Regards, Steve Thompson -- Opinions expressed by poster are not necessarily those of poster's employer -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
