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[ale] IBM to buy SUN?
- Subject: [ale] IBM to buy SUN?
- From: mark_wright at bellsouth.net (Mark Wright)
- Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2009 15:45:44 -0400
- In-reply-to: <20090318132420.0R6GO.1328596.root@mp07>
- References: <20090318132420.0R6GO.1328596.root@mp07>
Sun Also owns the former STK who is a big player in the storage
market. They build much better libraries than IBM and they have
virtual tape solution that outperforms IBM as well.
On Mar 18, 2009, at 1:24 PM, <dmcnash at charter.net>
<dmcnash at charter.net> wrote:
>
> I'm guessing that IBM is buying SUN for a talent and culture
> infusion (kinda like in the movie "A Boy and his Dog".) I can't
> think of anything coming out of IBM R&D since the RISC processor.
> Actually, I can't think of anything coming out of SUN either since
> SPARC or JAVA.
>
> --
> doug mcnash
>
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