Wednesday, March 18, 2009

IBM and SUN

My head is still spinning on this one. IBM is talking with Sun about buying the company. Here is a summary of what I have read.
  • May happen as early as this week
  • Sun's pricetag is $6.5B
  • IBM most interested in the software
  • People are not seeing Sun HW go away
  • Like everyone else Sun is struggling (revenues are down and staff getting laid off)
  • If deal goes through Linux will NOT be impacted and Solaris will certified on IBM servers
  • IBM would likely get mySQL

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