> 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
And don't forget storage Tek
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