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Unfortunately, the good-will didn't pay the bills
by gyjvdf 10y ago
Unfortunately, the good-will didn't pay the bills
- mrbill 10y agoMakes me wonder what would have happened if IBM had been the suitor instead of Oracle, as I saw rumored.
- rodgerd 10y agoSomeone in the know at the time claimed to me that IBMs plan was to keep the hardware and customers, and mitigate anti-trust concerns by spinning off the software to Red Hat. Given RHs compulsive open sourcing of aquisitions it's one of the great tragedies of the software industry that IBM got cold feet over the concerns that Sun were facing violations of anti-bribery laws.
- B1FF_PSUVM 10y agoOracle goes for the jugular - in this case, the cheque-writing vein ...