CNET Article on "Why an IBM purchase of Sun would make sense" http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10198901-92.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20 Mark T. Regan, K8MTR CTO1 USNR-Retired (1969-1991)
________________________________ From: Eric Chevalier <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 8:20:46 AM 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." -- Eric Chevalier E-mail: [email protected] Web: www.tulsagrammer.com Is that call really worth your child's life? HANG UP AND DRIVE! ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
