[advocacy-discuss] IBM in talks to buy SUN! - Is this true!?

[Jason King]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 1:28 PM, Amey <sco1984 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I heard that too.
>
>  It reminds me news of talks between Microsoft & Yahoo!
>
>  Some1 mentioned in this thread may be Apple or DELL will come up. I dont see any chances. They dont have any enterprise solutions anyway. DELL dont have there own OS. Apple dont have strong OS which is capable of hosting thousands of tb data and how can we forget one reboot in 365 days which is enough for a SPARC server?

It wasn't an attempt to suggest it was a serious option, just that the
rumors have been floating around for years (possibly over a decade),
just with different companies at different times, yet Sun's still
here.

Could also just be a pump & dump scheme -- the SEC doesn't seem
particularly interested in stopping such activities (there have been
plenty of pretty blatant attempts in the past 2 years).

Until something's formally announced, we just don't know.  Better to
not to let it distract us.