IBM in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems
Eric Chevalier
to buy Sun Microsystems for as much as $6.5 billion. A deal could take
place as early as this week.
"The deal furthers a recent pattern of consolidation in the tech
industry around the services, hardware and software used to run data
centers, the big computing rooms that store and process information.
In recent years, the market for servers has shifted from the huge,
custom-built 'mainframes' that IBM dominates to vast numbers of
standardized computers. By pushing standardized servers, H-P has made
inroads on IBM. In the meantime, Sun has suffered, as its strategy of
using its own operating system on standardized software has failed to
propel new growth."
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Ed Finnell
In a message dated 3/18/2009 7:21:42 A.M. Central Daylight Time,
et...@TULSAGRAMMER.COM writes:
to buy Sun Microsystems for as much as $6.5 billion. A deal could take
place as early as this week.
>>
I don't see the synergy at all. Maybe in the roll out we'll see more. From
an end user perspective it's like merging matter and anti-matter. Which is
which is open for debate.
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Mikhail Ramendik
>
> I don't see the synergy at all. Maybe in the roll out we'll see more. From
> an end user perspective it's like merging matter and anti-matter. Which is
> which is open for debate.
I do see the synergy. When I read (and wrote) of the Sun Grid offering some
years ago, the big question was - are we going back to centralized
computing?
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Thompson, Steve
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-...@bama.ua.edu] On
Behalf Of Eric Chevalier
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 7:21 AM
To: IBM-...@bama.ua.edu
Subject: IBM in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems
This morning's Wall Street Journal is reporting that IBM is in talks
to buy Sun Microsystems for as much as $6.5 billion. A deal could take
place as early as this week.
"The deal furthers a recent pattern of consolidation in the tech
industry around the services, hardware and software used to run data
centers, the big computing rooms that store and process information.
In recent years, the market for servers has shifted from the huge,
custom-built 'mainframes' that IBM dominates to vast numbers of
standardized computers. By pushing standardized servers, H-P has made
inroads on IBM. In the meantime, Sun has suffered, as its strategy of
using its own operating system on standardized software has failed to
propel new growth."
<SNIP>
Custom built (as he spits coffee all over his LCD)!?!? A few coughs and
gasps with the "...own operating system on standardized software..." has
me thinking they don't have a good editing staff any more. Shouldn't
that have been HARDWARE?
Seems to me that the mainframes are more standard than not with more
standard devices to attach. Seems that journalists should get out more
and KNOW more before writing this junk.
Ah, but what do I know? I'm just a balding middle-aged "white" guy who
has been working on/with computers since about 1968.
Regards,
Steve Thompson
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From: Eric Chevalier <et...@TULSAGRAMMER.COM>
To: IBM-...@bama.ua.edu
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 8:20:46 AM
Subject: IBM in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems
This morning's Wall Street Journal is reporting that IBM is in talks
Paul Gilmartin
>
>I don't see the synergy at all. Maybe in the roll out we'll see more. From
>an end user perspective it's like merging matter and anti-matter. Which is
>which is open for debate.
>
I have a biased view of the market. Don't many shops have
Sun and IBM on the floor with no mutual annihilation? At least
all the library and VSM customers I'm concerned with have IBM
on the floor.
I wonder what that would do for Solaris on z?
Breathe a relieved sigh; I may never be able to go to SHARE
in Denver.
-- gil
Anne & Lynn Wheeler
et...@TULSAGRAMMER.COM (Eric Chevalier) writes:
> This morning's Wall Street Journal is reporting that IBM is in talks
> to buy Sun Microsystems for as much as $6.5 billion. A deal could take
> place as early as this week.
>
> "The deal furthers a recent pattern of consolidation in the tech
> industry around the services, hardware and software used to run data
> centers, the big computing rooms that store and process information.
>
> In recent years, the market for servers has shifted from the huge,
> custom-built 'mainframes' that IBM dominates to vast numbers of
> standardized computers. By pushing standardized servers, H-P has made
> inroads on IBM. In the meantime, Sun has suffered, as its strategy of
> using its own operating system on standardized software has failed to
> propel new growth."
I periodically mention an old meeting at palo alto science center about
proposal to do sun machine product (by the people that would go on to
form sun). there were (at least) three different internal groups that
claimed that what they were doing was better ... and so IBM declined to
do sun product.
note also that in past decade or so, SUN had acquired STK ... mainframe
clone storage group.
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40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar70