…”I guarantee you it will be hard to sell an iPod five or seven years from now when every cell phone can access your entire music library wherever you are.” — Sun CEO, Scott McNealy in a 2006 article at The Register. Being big tech industry news, MacRumors posted a note on the Oracle buyout [...]
After months of rumors that IBM was to acquire Sun, Cnet is reporting that Sun is selling, but not to IBM, rather to Oracle. The deal is reportedly worth $7.4B. I you’ve read my blog, you’ll know that my primary concern with the acquisition of Sun from any company is the fate MySQL, which Sun [...]
It looks like IBM’s bid to buy Sun might be fading according to the Wall Street Journal. I guess $7B was too low for Sun to consider it.
As mentioned a couple of weeks ago, IBM is looking to acquire Sun. According to the NY Times, the acquisition appears to be imminent for a cool $7 billion (h/t Slashdot). My main question is “what will happen to MySQL?”, especially in the midst of confusion over what the real version of the popular DB [...]
The New York Times is reporting (via Slashdot) that IBM and Sun are in talks regarding the former acquiring the latter. The Wall Street Journal, quoting “people familiar with the matter,” reported Wednesday that International Business Machines was in talks to buy Sun for at least $6.5 billion in cash, a premium of more than [...]