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July 12, 2008 8:08 AM PDT

Who is buying Sun?

by Matt Asay

The Register's Ashley Vance started stirring the pot with the suggestion that Fujitsu should buy Sun, given that its market capitalization is down to $7 billion. IBM's Savio Rodrigues steered clear of suggesting that IBM would be a fit (too much overlap), but veers toward an HP acquisition.

Me? I think if someone were to acquire Sun, EMC would make a lot of sense, even despite Sun's StorageTek overlap. That could be spun out and sold. I think the combination of EMC storage hardware and Sun's Solaris hardware could prove a tempting combination for financial services, pharmaceutical, and other technology-intensive industries.

Like Savio, I doubt Sun will be consumed, and I continue to cheer for Sun to succeed. But in our consolidating technology world, that simply may not be on the cards.

Matt Asay brings a decade of in-the-trenches open-source business and legal experience to The Open Road, with an emphasis on emerging open-source business strategies and opportunities. Matt is vice president of business development at Alfresco, a company that develops open-source software for content management. He is a member of the CNET Blog Network and is not an employee of CNET. Disclosure.
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by Tony McCune July 12, 2008 11:23 AM PDT
EMC and Sun would be the ultimate culture clash. Boston meets Bay sounds scary. I paid a visit to EMC in 2006 to discuss portal and CMS integration with people in both Documentum and storage groups. Someone on their integration design team informed me that they don't like Javascript, any solution that included JS would not work for them. Huh??? I never went back.
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by fuentemike July 13, 2008 9:30 AM PDT
Javascript is not JAVA. It is a Netscape/Mozilla language for use in web pages. The name is misleading.
EMC ... nah ... HP ... nah. We tried printers years ago (SparcPrinter) but it didn't fly. Maybe Fujitsu, they like SPARC (Ultra et al) as well as Solaris Hitachi likes the amount of their disk arrays we resell.

Sun should keep working HP, IBM, Fujitsi and Hitachi, as well as others, to resell our gear. And include Solaris in their offerings.

IBM's consultants have recommended Sun for years for specific jobs.
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by fuentemike July 13, 2008 9:31 AM PDT
Javascript is not JAVA. It is a Netscape/Mozilla language for use in web pages. The name is misleading.
EMC ... nah ... HP ... nah. We tried printers years ago (SparcPrinter) but it didn't fly. Maybe Fujitsu, they like SPARC (Ultra et al) as well as Solaris. Hitachi likes the amount of their disk arrays we resell.

Sun should keep working HP, IBM, Fujitsi and Hitachi, as well as others, to resell our gear. And include Solaris in their offerings.

IBM's consultants have recommended Sun for years for specific jobs.
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by orgthingy July 13, 2008 4:34 PM PDT
solaris.. sucks! seriously, one *of the worst but not worst somehow ! :P
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