Re: [osol-discuss] Possible IBM aquisition of Sun

[Karel Gardas]

Well, let see what happens at the end, but aren't NetBeans and OpenSolaris 
open-sourced already? In the worst case I'm sure they will get a chance to 
proof if they are really healthy open-source projects or not. W.r.t. 
OpenSolaris this would probably mean to resurrect the project which aims to 
make it compilable by GNU C (assuming IBM will kill SunStudio CC compilers 
product line or will not make them free (as a beer) anymore).
W.r.t. Fujitsu SPARC64 I would bet that this will survive since if I understand 
correctly SPARC design is already free, so here Fujitsu (using sparc/solaris 
combo) will compete with IBM (using their transitive product line) over 
existing SPARC/Solaris based customers -- the question is how many they are 
still. Perhaps just as many as for Sun to be worth the 6.5bn$.
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