RE: how is IBM i affected by acquisition of Sun?

["Elvis Budimlic" <ebudimlic@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

And:

- Cloud computing (latest buzzword and Sun is quite prominent here)
- Counter Cisco's move to servers (Internet companies were Sun's bread and
butter)

But I'm with Scott, we just need to follow the money to deduce their
motivation.  IBM has cash to spend, so why not.

Elvis

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-----Original Message-----
Subject: Re: how is IBM i affected by acquisition of Sun?

1. Customer base.
2. SPARC technology.
3. Control over Java.
4. Annoy Oracle.

On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 3:59 PM, Scott Klement
<midrange-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>wrote:

> 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.