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IBM drops Sun bid
Brinkmanship
Mon Apr 06 2009, 09:18
IBM HAS DECIDED it doesn't want to buy Sun now, according to some well-placed sources.
A couple of faceless blabbermouths told the New YorK Times that Big Blue has taken back its $7 billion offer to buy up the outfit.
Whether this is a negotiatiing tactic or not remains to be seen, but reports that Sun executives were being a bit sniffy about IBM's offer are said to have led to the move.
On the other hand, IBM may be worried that legislators might think a Bigger Blue is an anti-competitive threat.
We wouldn't be surpirised if this is just one more negotiating tactic, however. µ
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Chief SunGeek could care less about being bought.
During the quarterly conference calls, we constantly hear about how much cash they have. (Somehow enabling them to Geek & Freek forever.)
Under this misguided philosophy, the Sun boys and girls will play on for a bit longer, freeking away whatever IP they have left.
Alas, one day reckoning will knock and Sun will dry up and blow away, lamented only by the loud many who neither paid nor motivated Sun to act like a real company.
Oh well, at least the boys at Sun can keep their ponytails for awhile longer. However, the hairdressing sector would have benefited had this deal gone through.
And, our beloved OpenOffice and VirtualBox are still safe!
Maybe IBM couldn't find enough India works to make this deal happen.
If IBM bought Sun it wouldn't constitute a monopoly, but it doesn't require a monopoly to adversely affect the market.
Unless we refer to some rather niche market, this doesn't seem like monopoly, far from it: HP, DELL and many other still are in the market :)
We don't want any more companies like Intel or Microsoft. Microsoft is a monopoly because they were here first, and Intel has unnecessary business tactics, trying to squeeze the last dime from the market. Like they would starve if they didn't.
Why can't a Non US company buy Sun instead to shake the market up a little?
E.g. TATA India / China.