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- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -4/+92I'm a long time Sun guy. What concerns me most about this is, will we be getting those cool google cafes and min-convenience stores filled with water, soda, candy and cereal in all the campuses? Or will that be reserved for the upper-class "google" employees? :D
Anyway, this is lame. The supporting evidence here is:
= Guy offers his own reasons on his blog for why he thinks Google would buy Sun.
= New York Times person cites guy's reasons from his blog on NYT guy's blog.
= Original guy cites NYT guy's citing of himself on NYT guy's blog on his own blog and considers it justification. - Xiol, on 10/12/2007, -4/+43"Original guy cites NYT guy's citing of himself on NYT guy's blog on his own blog and considers it justification."
My head just exploded. - RobotCitizen, on 10/12/2007, -5/+29Google's buying the Sun?!
- Browncoat, on 10/12/2007, -1/+22Either that or mapping the sun....
- marktwen, on 10/12/2007, -9/+27Sounds like proof positive that Saddam Hussein has "weapons of mass destruction" and is minutes away from using them against us or "our friends"--let's go to war!
- Urusai, on 10/12/2007, -3/+15My rumor mill sez that Google will buy Sun, Microsoft will buy Apple, and the Devil will be buying skis.
- kerskine, on 10/12/2007, -3/+14No digg - this guy is so full of crap it's turning my screen brown (oh wait, I'm still using the default Ubuntu theme). I wish Firefox had anti-bookmarks. I forgot that I read this guy's blog last week and need a way to automatically tell me - "Nothing Here".
- hinten, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17No digg, this doesn't even make sense. It's right up there with "Google is buying KrispyKreme".
- twylight, on 10/12/2007, -7/+17blogger needs to die in a fire
- ollywompus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8God could this guy have stroked himself anymore in this writeup?
"where I am a Guest Author, and started all the speculation."
"The New York Times' Dealbook blog is the most authoritative source of financial information on Wall Street, and the very fact that my comments — name attributed — have appeared there adds a phenomenal sign of crediility."
"A corporate finance executive close to the action who wishes to remain anonymous e-mailed me shortly afterwards with the revelation that the takeover will probably involve 35 shares of Sun for 1 of Google's and that my analysis was "spot on"."
This guy is definitely taking the cake for Moron of the Year.
-olly - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9But Google themselves state that they employ very cheap off the shelf-ish commodity systems as part of their proprietary many-failure-tolerant cluster system? Why would they care about serious computing power on an individual server?
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+7just say no to retards trying to get their blogs more traffic by making rediculous claims.
there is no proof of google buying sun, sun's core business has nothing to do with googles, which is advertising.
besides which sun is a sinking ship, the only people who would buy it will do it at bargin prices at the bankruptcy sale.
in summary, don't digg this, this guys and idiot - macrat, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8No need to buy Sun for StarOffice.
It's open source. http://www.openoffice.org/ - Chasuk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8You can't have a web-based OS. An OS is the fundamental program that manages, and allows one to run, all of the applications on a computer. Google might produce a web-based application (running under Windows, Linux, and MacOS) which offers similar functionality, but that wouls not make it an OS. The OS is the program which is initially loaded into the computer (by a boot program).
- RaistlinMajere, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11Reported as inaccurate.
We really need to be using that feature more often, people!! - sirplus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+8little credibility to this. yawn.
- mbiesz, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Uh... is there any direct, non-speculative evidence for this?
- psylence, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9That would be _huge_.
Because of that very reason, it will never happen. :( - adml_shake, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7While this wouldn't surprise me i'm still not seeing any real evidence of this...
- pwinn, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6This is all wild speculation and most likely nonsense. Blah.
- kolja, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7this blogger has been sniffing the glue too much. He has no sources and even less credibility. Last time he claimed that an "annonymous source" told him about information that is published in SEC reports... no digg
- zbeast, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5As much as I like UNIX as much as I like java.
There is no logical reason for Google to buy sun.
Unless they want there buildings. Sun has some very nice buildings.
But when you buy a company you have to have a plan for that company.
I don't see any plan in the Idea of buying Sun. It provides them no competitive advantage, it would tie up a lot of cash, Give them integration pains from hell. Make Google into bad guys because as you know when you buy a company, a big company's there are lots of layoffs coming.
Best guess for this story. They guy who wrote it is trying to do a Sunw stock pump and dump. - redDC143C, on 10/12/2007, -3/+7You forget, one of Google's mission statements is "To do no evil".
Google hasn't yet crossed that barrier, IMO.. the whole censorship in China thing had a lot of people upset, but I look at it from a different perspective - No Google in China = a censored China with bad search results, Google in China = a censored China with good search results. Google is still helping the people of China find their information; it is the government of China that should be blamed for censorship, and not a company trying to work inside of said government.
Now, the difference between Microsoft and Google is simply this: Google is still very much in favor of giving the user options, letting them decide what they'd like to use. Microsoft, has stated they want every computer in the world to run on Windows. I believe this was one of their mission statements.
You should just realize that Big != Evil :) - zouhair, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Hmm Google may maybe reconsider getting back to what makes it : SEARCHING
a lot of thing now in Google are still Beta :( - greyghost487, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This guy is an idiot his articles have no purpose other than traffic to his blog, cheers to the 1203 other idiots who dugg this article. Your just as stupid as this guy. (here comes the sarcasm) Googles stock goes down, Sun stock goes up. Google OBVIOUSLY is buying sun. i just proved it. plus i got a email from some guy that says i am right. time to publish another article. Oh wait, McNealy itched his left nut at the last event. Larry Page itched his left nut also at CES. well *****! this clearly indicates a buy out! time for another article!
- Jadix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Since when do bloggers write the headlines? We have on guy who expresses his opinion and then all of a sudden there's a headline that says "Looks like Google is Buying Sun After All"
This "new age media" is pissing me off because I never trust a single headline anymore. You used to be able to read a headline and learn what is really happening. Now they're just misleading links looking for clicks. - Xoligy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4In other news:
Google is buying Microsoft,
Microsoft is buying Apple,
Apple is buying Cadburys,
And Google is selling chocolate apples. - psylence, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5ohsh1rt: If you use OpenOffice you effectively use StarOffice.
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Here's an idea for the guys at the digg mothership...how about a ban list, so it is not possible to post tripe like this to digg? In the story submission engine, just check the ban list and toss the submission if it's from such an obviously dubious source like this.
- amalik49, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Why would a company that prides itself on using commodity, duct-taped hardware pay 2x the cash it has on hand in order to buy a widely lambasted hardware company? Are going to issue stock for Sun? If they do, watch it drop like a lead ***** balloon.
It's one thing to try and coyly take on eBay/MSFT/Yahoo/everyone else when you're a Wall Street darling and have everyone terrified of your brainpower. But Google's not stupid and is not going to make some blockbuster acquisition that signals "We don't know who we are anymore." Not their core business. Not their roadmap. No digg.
And this blogger is a self-congratulatory ass-clown. Don't post his ***** anymore. Wastes everyone's time. Esp. when he's reiterating theories that he expounded in the first place. - tr4nsmogrify, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3more rebuking of this story --
http://www.siliconvalleysleuth.com/ - dandiemer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thats a pretty misleading title designed to get diggs.
- RobGamble, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Google should buy SCO, them FIRE all of them.
- jeremy66158, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Stop playing with suns price, when it sells the price will change, until then leave it alone, or are you going to pump and dump? You say you don't know any stock holders but maybe you are getting paid to do this?
- fredinator, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3IMHO Google wouldn't Open Java's source code as they don't often open any software they make. They may open it if they have no use for it though
- mousky, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2"The New York Times' Dealbook blog is the most authoritative source of financial information on Wall Street, and the very fact that my comments — name attributed — have appeared there adds a phenomenal sign of crediility."
Sorry Mr. Harrison, but you just lost any credibility you had with that statement. Ass kissing does nothing for your credibility. Besides, you forgot the 'b' in credibility - good proofreading on your part. - C0D3R, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Well, at least this is not quite so preposterous as the "Dell buys Alienware" *cough* confirmation that made the front page with 2500+ diggs.
Seriously, you digg girls gossip more than my Aunt Bernice. - ericpp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Sun does make thin clients: http://www.sun.com/desktop/index.jsp?tab=1
Linux has this capability as well so they could just partner with a hardware vendor rather than buying out Sun. - amalik49, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Google's not going to dilute it's still lofty shares by issuing more to buy a PoS like Sun.
And Google has ~$8 billion on hand. But any of it that it spends on a hardware company will get it punished harshly by its investors. They bought Google to play the internet/ advertising market. Yet another reason this won't happen any time soon (if ever). Google's got enough on its plate; they don't need to worry about organizational integration of a completely separate business. - sishgupta, on 10/12/2007, -6/+8Its easy/cheap to obtain new servers when you don't have to buy em.
Theres a good example of vertical integration for ya... - drawkbox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Google is buying Dunkin Donuts from Carlyle, they are also buying the federal reserve.
- Shugii, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Yea, i reckon it won't happen, just like eBay and Skype. =)
- crbaker, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2What a load of rubbish. Why will java be improved by changing its licencing model. I can get source code, I can extend source code. Only IBM want Java open sourced for their own political objectives.
- eean, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well, you need to buy Sun if you want to hire all the OpenOffice devs that Sun sponsors.
- OBKenobi, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2In a move to counter the deal, MS will buy the Moon.
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You illustrate an interesting point. If they were to gooble up Sun, the would have to name it "Golaris", which we all know is an impossibility.
PS That is a new word I just coined: "gooble" it means when Google (or other acquisition-crazy company) acquires another company. - Jadix, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2Arg. Didn't mean to respond to this one, now I cant delete it. *new digg feature needed!* Allow deletion of comments while under the time limit for editing.
- panique, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's every bit as preposterous.
It's also a clear indication that the trolls are winning their battle to malign the credibility of digg. - nuxx, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2bah! this won't happen...Google and Solaris go together like GWB and MENSA!
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