[ale] IBM to buy SUN?

[Mark Wright]

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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