On Wed, Mar 18, 2009 at 10:24 PM, Epps, Aaron <Epps.Aaron at mayo.edu> wrote: > IMHO, I think this would be short-sighted and disastrous for Sun. IBM > would kill anything that competes with it's current offerings, Solaris > competes with AIX, FishWorks competes with their crappy rebranded NetApp > Storage Systems, SPARC competes with their PowerPC arch, etc. I hope I'm > wrong about this but I think Big Blue would kill off almost everything > (except Java and MySQL) that we like about Sun. Thoughts? >
One of the benefits of opensourcing is the life of technologies transcend that of organizations if the uptake for that technology is high enough ! -Shiv
