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