http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/technology/business-computing/06blue.html
I'm glad about that, I think Sun can do a lot better. Also, IBM's behavior with stimulus funds on one hand, and buying Sun on the other had an overt appearance of fiscal impropriety. There are better matches to be had, but I think that most any deal is going to suffer some problems because a whole hell of a lot of Sun technology is very advanced. IBM's bad offer reflects how the concurrent incomprehension can complicate potential deals. It's hard for a lot of companies to make innovative leaps through a merger, even incrementally. The best example of it occurring recently though that I can think of has been the adoption of ZFS outside of Sun. On one hand, companies like Microsoft are still falling back to closed source patents on DOS fs mechanics, on the other their competitor took a huge leap forward and adopted ZFS. That was risky for Apple, but it worked well because the technology is open source, and that gave them a margin of safety. I can't say I'm a fan of Apple's development practices from a business perspective, but they do have some undeniable clue there too. Aside from waving an Iphone at people, that probably serves as a better example for my point. Another option that should be on the table is the application of stimulus funds, in terms of targeting money, taxpayers would be way better off than they would with say, IBM's half-baked proposals. I'm concerned about mainframey matches, because frankly Sun does a better job with legacy support than most companies, and I don't want to see a system that works thrown out for some of the poor waters other companies suffer from. There's engineering that goes into the process of aging out technology that other companies just don't understand, much less possess. If you're a customer in an era of virtual machines, that sort of thing matters more, not less. The Themis contortions that were accompanying the IBM deal are an example of floundering on the part of IBM over that subject alone. Tim -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ opensolaris-discuss mailing list [email protected]
