The following message is a courtesy copy of an article that has been posted to bit.listserv.ibm-main as well.
[email protected] (Eric Chevalier) writes: > 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." I periodically mention an old meeting at palo alto science center about proposal to do sun machine product (by the people that would go on to form sun). there were (at least) three different internal groups that claimed that what they were doing was better ... and so IBM declined to do sun product. note also that in past decade or so, SUN had acquired STK ... mainframe clone storage group. -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar70 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
