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

[Michal Bielicki]

Am 23.03.2009 um 12:53 schrieb 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.
> -- 
>

And it wouldn't be the first time for them to do that.


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