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

[ольга крыжановская]

On 3/23/09, S h i v <shivakumar.gn at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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 !

A large part of Opensolaris still relies on closed source which is
controlled by Sun. If IBM takes over then can let Opensolairs "die" by
locking the closed parts away.
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