Depending on your aims, it could make sense to acquire ZFS with the intent of relicensing it (among other things).The GPL is incompatible with the CDDL, which is why it is necessary for ZFS to be supported outside of the kernelspace on Linux.
My uncle used to work in a power plant that has SPARC computers. SPARC can't fail because it has some significant "good balances" compare to other similar counterparts.
Sun has Open Office. IBM has their Lotus Symphony office suite based on Open Office (which is also pretty nice). MS has their Office. By buying out Sun, IBM gets more control over OOO (Sun programmers) and some VERY nice technologies including ZFS and VirtualBox. This is an important step to make sure OOO doesn't rot and a stepping stone for Linux on corporate workstations.Makes perfect sense to me.
Just imagine MySql with exact same synthax and usage running happily on IBM mainframes. No lack of developer support, everyone (down to users) knows how mysql works while strange stuff on IBM mainframes aren't.
IBM has some amazing filesystems too and in fact, they were already 10 years ahead of anything back in 1970s.Of course IBM filesystems require a mainframe while ZFS can run down to USB disks.Java? Isn't IBM responsible for half of the goodies you see on Javaland? Eclipse and SWT just to begin with.
If even legendary blue suits of IBM can't ''sell'' OpenOffice to companies, it would be safe to suggest Open Office developers to sit and think what is wrong with it.Mozilla people did it and you see the result and its amazing success. Firefox.
pearcewgMar 19, 2009
I deliberately left Java in 1997, vowing never to return.12 years on, and I'm still happy with my decision.
pfhorMar 19, 2009
Depending on your aims, it could make sense to acquire ZFS with the intent of relicensing it (among other things).The GPL is incompatible with the CDDL, which is why it is necessary for ZFS to be supported outside of the kernelspace on Linux.
lilbitmoreslykMar 19, 2009
Uh? are you smoking crack? Java's syntax is very similar to C++ and C# is very similar to Java. If anything Java's failure is the JIT Compiler.
bitmanxMar 19, 2009
If IBM doesn't then somebody else will like HP..
Closed AccountMar 20, 2009
My uncle used to work in a power plant that has SPARC computers. SPARC can't fail because it has some significant "good balances" compare to other similar counterparts.
peterixMar 21, 2009
Sun has Open Office. IBM has their Lotus Symphony office suite based on Open Office (which is also pretty nice). MS has their Office. By buying out Sun, IBM gets more control over OOO (Sun programmers) and some VERY nice technologies including ZFS and VirtualBox. This is an important step to make sure OOO doesn't rot and a stepping stone for Linux on corporate workstations.Makes perfect sense to me.
ilgazMar 21, 2009
Just imagine MySql with exact same synthax and usage running happily on IBM mainframes. No lack of developer support, everyone (down to users) knows how mysql works while strange stuff on IBM mainframes aren't.
ilgazMar 21, 2009
IBM has some amazing filesystems too and in fact, they were already 10 years ahead of anything back in 1970s.Of course IBM filesystems require a mainframe while ZFS can run down to USB disks.Java? Isn't IBM responsible for half of the goodies you see on Javaland? Eclipse and SWT just to begin with.
ilgazMar 21, 2009
If even legendary blue suits of IBM can't ''sell'' OpenOffice to companies, it would be safe to suggest Open Office developers to sit and think what is wrong with it.Mozilla people did it and you see the result and its amazing success. Firefox.
keegangraysonMar 24, 2009
generally a low stock price makes something a good buy... as long as it doesn't keep going down