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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 [...]

Last year when Sun Microsystems (NASDAQ:JAVA) took over MySQL, I asked if it would get into open source applications.
Sun’s Q2 revenues of $3.22 billion were in line with the market’s expectations even though they were down 10.9% over the year. However, EPS of $0.15 per share was significantly lower than last year’s $0.50.
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A possible IBM acquisition of Sun Microsystems Inc. might have its good points. But users and analysts also have concerns that can be summed up in two words: uncertainty and fear.
Sun may be a diminished company these days, but it remains an influential one. Through its open-source products and [...]

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A takeover of Sun Microsystems Inc. (JAVA) by International Business Machines Inc. (IBM) would offer Big Blue some significant advantages in rounding out its product lineup as it faces down Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) and others in the data center market.
Specifically, IBM could benefit from Sun’s work as a leader in open-source software and [...]

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While IBM (NYSE: IBM)’s open source strategies could benefit from an acquisition of Sun Microsystems (NSDQ: JAVA), industry observers believe such a deal would have had more strategic value a few years ago.
Reports that IBM is in talks to buy Sun for $6.5 billion in cash set off a firestorm of skepticism, debate, [...]

Stranger things have happened, but there are several reasons why IBM buying Sun Microsystems could, to borrow a phrase from former Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy, be like two garbage trucks colliding in slow motion.
The Wall Street Journal reported that IBM is in talks to buy Sun for at least $6.5 billion in cash, which [...]

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IBM is reportedly in talks to buy Sun Microsystems for $6.5 billion and the deal is long overdue. The companies mesh on the open source software front, Sun is struggling and IBM can consolidate some server market share.
First, the headlines. The Wall Street Journal is reporting that IBM could acquire Sun as early [...]

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The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting the use of Linux, is set to debate the future of operating systems with Microsoft and Sun Microsystems at the upcoming Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit.
Linux Foundation officials have confirmed keynotes and panelists for the Linux Foundation Collaboration Summit, now in its [...]

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There are many reasons to love open-source software, but Sun Microsystems CEO Jonathan Schwartz thinks that one of its biggest benefits is free advertising. As Schwartz suggests, developers don’t spend money. They spend time. That time spent with your technology, then, equates to free advertising, which advertising can presumably be [...]

Dogma is nice, but it doesn’t pay the bills.
That’s the lesson I’ve learned over the past few years, and one that my good friend–and Sun vice president of lifecycle management–Zack Urlocker illustrates on his Infoworld blog. The big turning point in my own open-source evolution–the one that made me happy to be a flip-flopper–was being [...]