[Info-vax] OT: IBM to buy Sun

[yyyc186]

HP is currently only interested in selling ink jet cartriges and
services provided by illegal aliens.  EDS and GM are actually the root
of the current financial crisis.  They were the first to pay Gartner
to market off-shoring so they could off-shore.  GM's upper management,
having taken too many head shots falling on the bunny slopes only
looked at the cost savings on paper, not the consequences of it.  They
never stopped to consider the fact that most of the people buying
their $70K SUVs were IT workers.  When the IT workers lost their
income, they not only stopped buying SUVs, they stopped playing the
"flip this house" game and the real-estate bubble popped.  The rest is
history.

Having had to work with some of the fine-fine off-shore talent being
provided to GM via some standards committees, I have to say that GM
doesn't have a prayer of cutting costs via technology.  The senior
most person they provided with the interface team had absolutely zero
ability to do design work, yet he was better than the rest of the team
they had participating in the conference calls.  When your primary
selection criteria is "are you willing to work 12 hours per day for
$10 per day?" the outcome is predetermined.


On Mar 18, 12:01 pm, Neil Rieck <n.ri... at sympatico.ca> wrote:
> On Mar 18, 11:56 am, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
>
> > Tom Linden wrote:
> > >http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123735970806267921.html
>
> > IF this happens, it will definitely change the enterprise system
> > landscape.  IBM will have to decide between AIX, Solaris and Linux, or
> > would it keep all 3 ?
>
> > What is interesting is that HP doesn't seem interested in enterprise OS.
> >  So that would leave only IBM in the fray. (Unless Cisco becomes
> > succesful with its servers).
>
> HP must be interested in enterprise or they wouldn't have purchased
> EDS. They just don't seem to be interested in OpenVMS.
>
> Neil Rieck