Well, first of all, to me it just sounds nuts :-) So long ago, over beer me and some of my friends were discussing about Sun. One of the future that we were contemplating was a buy out scenario. On the premise that market consolidation leads to competitors with almost same portfolio of products, we thought about Amazon, Oracle and even Apple as possible buyers... but NOT IBM.
I can't understand right now what is IBM looking to pay $6B for (though thats a discount of around 50%)! IBM already has a competing product portfolio that almost matches piece for piece with Sun, or even better - AIX, WebSphere, DB2 etc are money making products and far up that ladder than Solaris, Glassfish or MySQL! Not to mention Eclipse that IBM uses as basis for many of its money making products (Lotus Notes etc). So except may be for JAVA, I don't see any reason why IBM would like to buy Sun. Though I contend that $6B is one hell of a bargain price for being able to control that !! Rest are just baggage, at least for IBM unless they want to rebrand/replace some of their existing offerings, which I doubt. - Akhilesh -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
