By Kalali
via weblogs.java.net
Published: Mar 19 2009 / 10:20
The Wall Street Journal Published an article which discuss possibility of IBM buying Sun Microsystems, but why on earth should IBM take over Sun Microsystems when almost every product which Sun offer has a counterpart in IBM arsenal?
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Comments
brixon replied ago:
"...but why on earth should IBM take over Sun Microsystems when every product which Sun offer has a counterpart in IBM arsenal."
This is an easy question. When IBM buys Sun, it reduces IBM's competition, allows IBM to control more of the market, allows IBM to increase prices for their products and Sun's products and creates a larger company to better compete with Microsoft.
prime21 replied ago:
Also, it would make IBM to steward of the most successful programming language/platform of all time. Holding the reigns to the Java platform has tremendous value in and of itself.
bjupton replied ago:
RawThinkTank replied ago:
Dont forget that both hav some awesome hardware technologies that when merged can give others a run for their ...
Rob Signorelli replied ago:
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