[Info-vax] OT: IBM to buy Sun

[Arne Vajhøj]

P. Sture wrote:
> In article <a14d1$49c4f864$cef8af62$13106 at TEKSAVVY.COM-Free>,
>  "John Smith \(not the one @ HP\)" <a at nonymous.com> wrote:
>> HP's real enterprise OS is provided by Microsoft, based on dollar value of 
>> sales. 
> 
> That has been the subject of many a discussion here - why let MS have 
> the profits for the OS when they have their own operating systems?
> 
> So they have in effect outsourced OS development and maintenance?

If it was a HP choice: yes.

But I find it more likely that the HP Windows boxes would
have been replaced with IBM or Dell Windows boxes than
HP-UX boxes.

Arne