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Did IBM consider purchasing Sun?

• wmf 1y ago
  Yes, although IBM only wanted Java and was planning to cancel SPARC and maybe Solaris.
  • jeberle 1y ago
    Makes sense given that IBM already had the POWER arch & AIX, which was based on BSD rather than SysV for Solaris.
  • whartung 1y ago
    Kind of like Oracle did.
    • rbanffy 1y ago
      Oracle also tried to kill MySQL, with extremely amusing results.