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

[S h i v]

On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Epps, Aaron <Epps.Aaron at mayo.edu> wrote:
> IMHO, I think this would be short-sighted and disastrous for Sun. IBM
> would kill anything that competes with it's current offerings, Solaris
> competes with AIX, FishWorks competes with their crappy rebranded NetApp
> Storage Systems, SPARC competes with their PowerPC arch, etc. I hope I'm
> wrong about this but I think Big Blue would kill off almost everything
> (except Java and MySQL) that we like about Sun. Thoughts?
>

One of the benefits of opensourcing is the life of technologies
transcend that of organizations if the uptake for that technology is
high enough !

-Shiv