[Info-vax] OT: IBM Offering $9-10 Per Share for Sun

[Michael Kraemer]

Richard B. Gilbert schrieb:
> Lee Witten wrote:
> 
>> Michael Kraemer <M.Kraemer at gsi.de> wrote in
>> news:grc9sc$saq$00$2 at news.t-online.com:
>>
>>> JF Mezei schrieb:
>>>
>>>> BTW: BBC now reports that talks between IBM and Sun may have broken
>>>> down. 
>>>
>>> which could be bad news for Sun technology because now
>>> a certain Wintel company called HP or maybe even M$
>>> could step in.
>>>
>>
>> It'd be a shame to see Sun swallowed up by a company
>> so averse to funding R&D like HP.  Last figures I saw
>> said IBM spends about twice as much on R&D as a percent of revenue as 
>> does HP.  <snip>
> 
> 
> IBM has always understood the value of research!
> 
> H-P used to when it was younger. 

That was before Belluzzo talked HP into dumping PA-RISC
(and HP-UX) because by 1998 everybody would be on Wintel.
Then he went to SGI and ruined that company as well.
After having accomplished this, he crept back to
his master at Redmond.
If you think Palmer was a bad guy, Belluzzo tops him
by a far margin.