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| Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, April 18 2012 @ 07:52 PM EDT |
Larry E. was in a world of hurt here. IBM could have bought Sun and folded the
mainframe division so he needed IBM to not have it. In retrospect he should have
invested in Sun and helped nurse it back to health. That way he could have had
an inside track to whole of Java plus assure SPARC-Solaris a life long enough to
perhaps interest someone in the specialized mainframe business like a Japanese
or Chinese-Oracle-database combination. Larry seems to like to own things
though so maybe his nature wouldn't allow cooperation.[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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| Authored by: sproggit on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 01:49 AM EDT |
One of the I sights I've gained through following Groklaw is to see the deep
and often comples strategies that play out in the board rooms of these
large companies.
IBM knew that Sun was critical to Oracle.
IBM are in direct competition with Oracle in the database space.
IBM had no commercial need to purchase Sun, yet they looked...
I appreciate that this is very cynical, and I have no evidence to support this
theory, but just suppose that IBM decided to get involved for no reason
other than to bid up the price for Sun? I don't think it's too likely, as if I
recall
correctly the IBM bid had fallen through before Oracle got deeply involved.
If that were true, I would say it was a successful ploy indeed...[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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- Chess - Authored by: PJ on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 02:05 AM EDT
- Chess - Authored by: bilateralrope on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 03:39 AM EDT
- Chess - Authored by: JK Finn on Thursday, April 19 2012 @ 06:02 AM EDT
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