Plenty of press about IBM's possible take over of Sun. I'm not sure what I think yet but I suppose my main feeling is that less competition would be a bad thing.
Sun have some good technologies of late, but spent too long at the end of last century and the beginning of this drifting. I can remember Solaris being taken off x86 and then coming back that must have lost customers. Although Java is successful they do not seem to have benefited that much from it - which is a real shame. Maybe the success serverside was not their original intention for it as it struggles as a browser based technology.
The hardware business probably does well although they seem to have cut prices to stay in the game. The open source acquistions and the support of open source has yet to pay off - and again this is a real shame.
So what do IBM want, the thinking seems to be Java, some features of Solaris, with MySQL and other acquired technologies just a nice to have. Will have to wait and see whether the deal is made.
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