[Info-vax] OT: IBM to buy Sun

[Michael Roach]

TIME Magazine Person of the Year for 2006 Bill Pechter
<pechter at bandit.pechter.dyndns.org.pechter.dyndns.org> wrote:

>In article <op.uqzk35s7hv4qyg at murphus.hsd1.ca.comcast.net>,
>Tom Linden <tom at kednos.company> wrote:
>>http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123735970806267921.html
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>Only the strong survive.  Sun's never managed to capitalize on the purchase
>of Storage Tek et. al. and the opening up of Solaris as Open Source.

I'd always hoped that IBM would scrounge for spare change in their lobby
couches, buy SCO, and open UNIX.
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