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RE: Is it a bad idea for IBM to buy Sun?

MuleHeadJoe 19th Mar 2009

It seems to me that IBM buying Sun is a horrible idea. There is no doubt in my mind that at the absolute minimum such a merger would spell the death of Solaris, which by far is a better unix than any other I've seen. IBM is the 800 pound gorrilla, and they do not respect innovation. For the past decade I've been making my living as a specialist in certain IBM software, and I can say this: IBM prefers to buy other companies and rebrand the newly purchased products rather than actually innovate and improve the products that have been developed in house. IBM's lack of innovation is very troubling to me, as well as the way they grind up the competition ... if they can't compete, they buy up the enemy. Pretty soon the midrange unix market will be like the desktop market ... one OS to rule them all (cough *aix* cough) and we can all say goodbye to competition and innovation. Good for IBM == bad for the market and consumers. At least that's my $0.02.