Who is buying Sun?
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.
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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.
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.
- 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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