And what's stopping them from doing this now! Even if Java wasn't Free and being OpenSourced, IBM is rich enough, to pay SUN for they use of JAVA IBM is a reso

And what's stopping them from doing this now! Even if Java wasn't Free and being OpenSourced, IBM is rich enough, to pay SUN for they use of JAVA IBM is a resourceful entity, it doesn't need things to be free to invest in it, Myself personally I can only invest in FOSS because because I cannot afford to invest in prorietary techologies this why I am investing in the shinto shrine that is Perl and Perl technologies, I am also investing in a less Open technology Groovy and Grails, less Open for its weak reliance on SUN and SpringSource, IBM on the other hand can buy and rent what they need to increase their market share, they can in theory invest in Microsoft Technologies, which in someways they do by providing Windows Clients for many of their tools, Myself of course I only dare to think about creating portable applications, because I cannot afford to rely on MSFT ,so at the end of the day it about investments Honestly I think IBM will be buying SUN's market share, not products. IBM wasn't growth, wants to increase its revenue in 2009 by whatever percent SUN client can do this for IBM of course this will cost IBM them 9 Billion they are paying of course in addition to several oher costs associate with running SUN