I'd prefer they not be bought out. I don't think it's a good idea, and won't create customer value.
I do think the talk about a possible purchase has flushed out the persistent short sellers. I seriously hope those people lose their shirts, they deserve every nickel of loss they suck down. If there were no choice but to sell, I'd rather see the company sold to IBM than a non-US entity, having dealt with some of the names mentioned in this thread, I am convinced that a foreign sale would be a complete disaster. Sun is a well managed company, staffed by people who for the most part have common sense and technical clue. Some of these other companies are staffed by management teams that are mired in dysfunctional corporate culture that's worse than any I have ever seen in my life. Would you want Sun to be bought by a company who's management refused to use version control on major custom software revisions? That kind of thing wouldn't pass muster at IBM, or at least so I hope. And how much of this is ZFS driven Linux envy? IBM's already in bed with Redhat, they own AIX, and the list goes on. That list is no expression of market efficiency either, and that's one of my largest concerns. I don't see the market efficiencies in a situation where Sun is purchased by a company that already is not making the most of what it has. If I had to take my pick for a sale, I'd rather see Sun bought by Cisco than most other companies that I can think of. It'd probably not trigger the same regulatory issues, create technical opportunity for both parties, and the cultural fit would be better too. Tim -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
