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- silentdragoon, on 04/03/2009, -0/+30I currently work for Sun. So in a few days, I'll either work for a Fortune 500 company or be jobless. Yeahhhhhhhhhhh.
- latenightlab, on 04/03/2009, -0/+18This would be a huge purchase for IBM. Would be insane if it happened.
- boazg, on 04/03/2009, -1/+18while sun has some good technologies, they are not that great at wrapping them up and making them simple to use. IBM seems to be better at it.
i'm rooting for ZFS on linux, btw - Archon810, on 04/03/2009, -0/+12Imagine the happy MySQL employees who just went through a round of all their options vesting and worth a bunch of money. Here they go again. What can I say, congratulations.
- TheWriteGuy, on 04/03/2009, -0/+9IBM buying Sun might help the future of OpenOffice, and this possibility may be making Microsoft very nervous right now.
- nedzeve, on 04/03/2009, -0/+9Sorry, but IBM's market cap is larger than Google's.
- scratt, on 04/03/2009, -0/+9Yeah go for it, because it's really secret at the moment.. shhh
- Azsen, on 04/03/2009, -0/+8Google doesn't have a trillion dollars to aquire IBM.
- Langford, on 04/03/2009, -0/+7How could this change stuff like ZFS and OpenOffice?
- hiriumi, on 04/03/2009, -0/+7What does Sun have that IBM really needs for its business? Java? MySQL? Server business? This is a landscape changing news for the software/hardware industry.
- enantiodromia, on 04/03/2009, -0/+6So IBM now owns MySQL as well.
- inactive, on 04/03/2009, -1/+8Recession? What recession??
- markr, on 04/03/2009, -0/+6Hmm - it is a shame. Sun is a great company...
- sanskrtam, on 04/03/2009, -0/+5And probably vitalize Lotus softwares.
- bffoley, on 04/03/2009, -0/+5Not likely, IBM's market cap is $136B and I dont think anyone in this economy has that lying around :)
- SisyphusFragmnt, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4Let it die.
- navidb, on 04/03/2009, -1/+5to quote a certain armageddon moment, peter stormare:
iz dis good or iz dis bad? - jbmcb, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4I heard a story on the Motley Fool a few years ago, about a small software company that made some component that Rational used. IBM was going to buy Rational, and, being key to their software, Rational bought this small company. The interview was with one of the regular programmers, who was partially paid in company stock. His shares were converted to Rational, which were then converted to IBM, and within a month he was a millionaire.
- ausdigger, on 09/15/2009, -0/+4ibm employee here. completely different markets. microsoft is no competition to ibm/sun in the midrange space.
- cooltechgadgets, on 04/03/2009, -0/+4I think Solaris has a bigger footprint in the Investment Bank space whereas AIX is bigger in the Commercial Bank space. With the failure of many Investment Banks I guess Sun lost a lot of deep pocket customers. I am not sure how IBM would differentiate Solaris and AIX. It will be interesting to see.
- dn90, on 04/03/2009, -2/+5I wasn't a member and it worked--buried and please don't submit crap comments like this.
- 473NGR, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3Works for me
- enantiodromia, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3worked perfectly for me, in Safari. *shrug*
- x713, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2Somehow I am being pessimistic. All I can see is bad coming out of this for the consumer. :(
- mohsenxp, on 04/03/2009, -1/+4Given how highly competitive this market is that's not so correct.
Less competition does mean less innovation, but in this industry less companies doesn't mean less competition. It often means more focused competition and increased innovation. - Phi01, on 04/03/2009, -0/+3I think you mean IBM buy Google....
- jocknerd, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2Sun never could figure out how to make money on Java. IBM did.
- inactive, on 04/04/2009, -0/+2SPARC spec is public domain, Fujitsu parts have been shipping in Sun for the past two years.
- cjacks9, on 04/03/2009, -1/+3So...should I buy some Sun stock now?
- fuzzynyanko, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2I have mixed feelings about IBM. They are a reliable company, but they are also messy
- silentdragoon, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2Me too.
- pickypg, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2IBM loves Java and MySQL. After all, they are the original creators of Eclipse, and the last IBM server I worked on came with some distro of Linux and MySQL preinstalled.
- Hortnon, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2Well only two tech companies are bigger than IBM: Microsoft and Oracle
Imagine if either of them bought IBM after IBM bought Sun. - Jimbob200, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2mohsenxp, I know nothing about the topic except for what I gleaned from the article. I was thinking that as soon as the value jumped they could sell and get a pretty penny, or wait it out and see how things went.
- Hortnon, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2I can only hope for ZFS' spread to as many OS' as possible...
- chuckDontSurf, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2I work for Sun as well, but take heart--even after the acquisition terms are finalized, it'll take months before it completes (remember, it still has to get through antitrust), and months after that before IBM assesses what they're going to do with Sun's employees. So, in a few *months* we'll either work for a Fortune 500 company or be jobless. :-)
But yeah, it does suck. I really enjoyed working at Sun. - Goph09, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2and I currently work for IBM. So in a few days, I'll either be your boss, or make you jobless
- sanskrtam, on 04/03/2009, -0/+2It'll be better for Fujitsu to acquire all the SPARC-related technologies in this situation.
- GumGuts, on 04/03/2009, -4/+6I'm just waiting for Google to buy IBM.
- MicrosoftBob, on 04/03/2009, -1/+3'Reply'
See how that works? - bitmanx, on 04/03/2009, -1/+3Paid for by laid off US based IBM employeee's...
- Hortnon, on 04/03/2009, -0/+1I couldn't access it without being a member.
Actually, all the articles from nytimes through the Digg bar have been like this. If I click the link to go directly to the URL, it's no problem. - mbradbury, on 04/04/2009, -0/+1no
- moghua, on 04/03/2009, -0/+1Even if ZFS were GPL'd tomorrow (which wont happen), it would be a while before it could be integrated into Linux. By the time its integrated, btrfs would probably be stable and the issue would be moot.
http://btrfs.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page - jocknerd, on 04/03/2009, -0/+1MySQL for zOS!!!! Yippie. Not really. I'll continue to use PostgreSQL. But I'm hoping for something really big. Like a license change in ZFS. Maybe IBM will make it GPL so it shows up in Linux.
- Hortnon, on 04/03/2009, -0/+1What's odd about that is that IBM's JVM in AIX blows because IBM chooses what parts to implement and so it leaves a lot of features out.
Originally, Oracle installers would fail because an entire chunk of the Java implementation was left out as a 'feature', and one of the places I contract at had a major problem with their Weblogic cluster because the IBM Java was again, missing features. IBM sent an engineer out for the cluster problem and determined that the Weblogic code needed to be fixed, not IBM's Java. - Hortnon, on 04/03/2009, -0/+1Isn't ZFS already on Red Hat?
- Hortnon, on 04/07/2009, -0/+1http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filesystem_in_Userspa ...
So I was wrong but it's still possible... - Hortnon, on 04/03/2009, -0/+1Sun has a giant market in government and military, while IBM has almost none.
Since Solaris runs on SPARC and AIX runs on their 'power' series, they probably would keep them separate. I imagine that making the OS's run on each other's hardware would be more work than it's worth - allowners, on 04/04/2009, -0/+1Postgresql remains free.
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