This morning's Wall Street Journal is reporting that IBM is in talks
to buy Sun Microsystems for as much as $6.5 billion. A deal could take
place as early as this week.
"The deal furthers a recent pattern of consolidation in the tech
industry around the services, hardware and software used to run data
centers, the big computing rooms that store and process information.
In recent years, the market for servers has shifted from the huge,
custom-built 'mainframes' that IBM dominates to vast numbers of
standardized computers. By pushing standardized servers, H-P has made
inroads on IBM. In the meantime, Sun has suffered, as its strategy of
using its own operating system on standardized software has failed to
propel new growth."
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Eric Chevalier E-mail: et...@tulsagrammer.com
Web: www.tulsagrammer.com
Is that call really worth your child's life? HANG UP AND DRIVE!
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