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IBM On The Verge of Buying Sun for $7 billion
- Keyframe 18y agoI don't know whether to be excited about this or sad.
- mridulkhan 18y agoI'm excited. Both of them own some really great products and are amazing at R&D. On top of that IBM is practical and profitable.
- Keyframe 18y agoI agree with you. Both IBM and Sun have some really amazing R&D and almost all technological stacks in both companies can be merged and benefit (unless IBM kills all of Suns product lines - which it won't). DB2 <-> MySQL, IBM processors <-> Sun processors, Sun brings Workstations in the IBM house once again, Storage systems also, etc.. What I'm sad about is that the third pillar of once paragon of high performance computing is falling down. First DEC, then SGI and now SUN. I miss those magical times.
- access_denied 18y agoAlso, Data General.
- adammarkey 18y agoI imagine Netbeans will go the way of the Dodo since the Eclipse project is IBM's baby.
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- mridulkhan 18y agoNetbeans has been showing some real improvements recently, it'd be a shame if it gets killed. I'm hoping they'll maintain both, like Autodesk is doing with 3ds Max and Maya.
- signa11 18y agototal eclipse of the sun. sorry couldn't resist :o)
- rbanffy 18y agoIt would be a shame. I prefer NetBeans for doing server-side Java. But I prefer almost anything to server-side Java ;-)
- dforbin 18y agoibm makes a ton of money from consulting. more products is good for this.
- gaius 18y agoNot for customers it isn't. You only need consultants if you're churning rather than upgrading your kit...
- spitfire 18y agoThis is a shame Sun lost it's way. I was looking forward to playing with one of Sun's coolthreads servers. That's about the only interesting thing happening in hardware these days. As far as things go this is really a negative. Sun was doing all the right moves (slowly). Interesting hardware - coolthreads, open-sourcing software left and right. IBM has... Linux on mainframes and consulting. Both Sun and SGI slowly lost out as Apple become the new Unix desktop of choice.
- vang3lis 18y agoBut everyone in select industries (telecoms?) wants Linux on mainframes or DB2, which still beats crap out of Oracle for some workloads. And don't forget the IBM Research
- rjurney 18y agoThey're interesting, but you have to BUY them to play with them :(
- cturner 18y agoIBM has services and they're better at them. I think it could be a good pairing. Allow Sun to focus on things they're good at with the strength of a solid services company behind them.
- wheels 18y agoSun and SGI lost out long before that. It's not like people just stopped buying Sun workstations a couple years ago; they were already out of style a decade ago. While I was in college, in the late 90s, I saw all of the workstations that were Sun's when I came in be replaced by PCs running Linux. This was before OS X 1.0 even was available, and it was a few more years even before Mac users started warming to OS X. Sun might have been doing some interesting things, but they've pretty much had a decade of investing into technologies they don't have a way to monetize, both in software and hardware. I'm just glad that it's IBM buying them since I think of the potential acquirers, that IBM would be the closest fit to keep some of their character intact.
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- rjurney 18y agoWith IBM pushing their own cloud - does this mean I might one day be able to fire up a bunch of 32 thread boxes to do my bidding? Hey, a guy can dream...
- modoc 18y agoIt seems wrong somehow that IBM would spend $7 billion on an acquisition, immediately after laying off thousands of employees.
- hko 18y agoIt's not really spending. What's presumably happening is that the companies are merging, and the Sun part of the merger is going to worth $7 billion.