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It’s ironic but fitting that executive bonuses, a subject that’s ignited popular anger against the very companies in Sun Microsystems’ core customer base on Wall St, helped kill Sun’s future.
It’s been reported that a disagreement between IBM and Sun over post-acquisition packages for both chief executive officer Jonathan Schwartz and chairman and co-founder [...]

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Sun Microsystems share price has plummeted this week following the breakdown of IBM’s takeover talks. The board rejected an offer of $9.40 per share and terminated their agreement to negotiate exclusively with IBM.
Sun has been looking for a buyer for several months. The company has struggled for a few years [...]

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The big IBM-Sun (JAVA) news has come and gone; so far without an outcome. It’s going to be ugly for Sun. A situation like this is absolutely fatal to an organization. The wheels of employee defection and revised customer spending plans are set in motion and there is little that [...]

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With rumors of a takeover by IBM swirling around him, Sun Microsytems’ chairman Scott McNealy tried to pitch a room of customers this week on the idea that Sun is a wily innovator whose software and hardware are far less costly than proprietary solutions from Oracle and, yes, IBM. But McNealy had little [...]

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An acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. by IBM might have its good points, especially for Sun’s long-suffering shareholders. But IT users and analysts have concerns about the prospective deal that can be summed up in two words: uncertainty and fear.
While Sun is a diminished company these days, it remains influential, [...]

By joining the Open Invention Network TomTom made its most important statement yet that it won’t get pushed around in its patent litigation with Microsoft.
OIN members include important players like IBM, Philips and Sony. On the other hand they also include Novell, whose original patent cross-license with Microsoft drives the controversy over Big Greens [...]

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Sun CEO Jonathan Schwartz has put forward a compelling argument as to how Sun will monetize open-source software.
Fortunately, he may never need to, as it seems all-but-certain that IBM will acquire Sun, perhaps as early as this week, according to sources familiar with the matter.
In a nutshell, Schwartz argues that [...]

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IBM’s chances of being a major player in the era of cloud computing would be enhanced by a merger with Sun, says BusinessWeek.
IBM can also afford the $6.5BN acquisition that is apparently being discussed since it has $13BN cash hoard, notes BW Senior writer Steve Hamm.
In his report published today, the day after [...]

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IBM is in talks to acquire Sun Microsystems, according to The Wall Street Journal.
Sun has struggled to revive its financial prospects in the wake of declining interest in its Solaris operating system and associated hardware. Open source has been the big bright spot for Sun, but Sun’s ability to recoup hardware losses with [...]

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SINGAPORE–Local institute of learning, Republic Polytechnic, has partnered IBM and Red Hat to groom IT professionals with expertise to meet rising adoption of open source software and mainframe virtualization.
The institute has launched a new course that provides training on IBM’s System z mainframe based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
At a media briefing Wednesday, [...]