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Comments on: Rumor: Zend for sale, with IBM a likely buyer?

Zend may well be on the block. But who will be the most likely buyer?

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by jamesgerber May 22, 2008 6:38 AM PDT
what about Red Hat? they have deep pockets and it might make sense for them...they're more importantly also looking to have a more complete OSS stack (see JBoss acquisition)...
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by royrusso May 22, 2008 11:50 AM PDT
Sun may make this a nice addition to the 'M' in their LAMP.
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by Matt Asay May 23, 2008 10:48 AM PDT
Word on the street is that it's Oracle again.
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by dskarjune May 28, 2008 10:51 AM PDT
I was just at php|tek in Chicago last week. Andy Gutmans did not discuss the layoffs in his keynote. In a casual conversation, he was reticent to comment on the Sun acquisition of MySQL . Core members of the PHP community politely endorse the Zend framework, but they criticize Zend for trying to move partner code into the base. An acquisition by IBM would be advantageous as they have supported PHP with excellent documentation and 'get' the methodology of the community. A marriage in Javaland would be shotgun. As for Oracle, it's just a poker game.
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