Massive Sun cuts planned as IBM focuses on software trio
IBM staffers have, according to a Reg source close to the parties, been talking to Sun about its software portfolio and – unsurprisingly – they don’t like what they’ve found: It’s not making any money.
IBM’s now interested in three Sun software assets: the open-source MySQL database, Java, and Sun’s Solaris operating system.
The rest, including all that open-source work Sun’s spent years building and hyping, will succumb to that classic of big vendor lingering deaths by being, ahem, “released” to the “community”.
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www.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/technology/business-computing/06blue.html
I.B.M. Withdraws $7 Billion Offer for Sun Microsystems
Published: April 5, 2009
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I believe its just all rumors to pump up the stock of Sun, it just does not make any sense for IBM to buy SUN. The only thing that I can see IBM benefiting from would be java portion, other than that they have it all. Chips? Well they have their own PowerPC. Unix? well they have their own AIX and Linux. Professional Services? They certainly much better on that. DB? Well IBM had DB2, why do they need mysql for? If they wanted to buy SUN why not doing it last year when Sun was at its lowest? If they wanted to get mysql they could have done that way before sun did. So why? Well whoever did play SUN stocks certainly made a killing yesterday.
