Re: how is IBM i affected by acquisition of Sun? -- MIDRANGE-L

Subject: Re: how is IBM i affected by acquisition of Sun?
From: Scott Klement <midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Mar 2009 15:59:50 -0500
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My gut instinct... IBM isn't buying Sun to get control of the technology, but rather because IBM thinks it'll look good to the stockholders.

Alan Campin wrote:

Can't see any reason IBM would want Solaris unless it is just to get access
to the Solaris customers for conversion to AIX.

Since Java is now open source what does IBM get from owning Sun?

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