Re: [OT] Is Sun dead?

epdv wrote:
> 
> Hello!
> 
> I've got to read this:
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123735124997967063.html ("IBM in Talks
> to Buy Sun in Bid to Add To Web Heft"). So, will Sun be part of IBM?
> Will it probably no more exist? If IBM will aquire Sun - will NetBeans
> engagement be terminated?
> 
> Kind regards
> 
> Peter
> 
> 
Hi Peter,

If the take over happens and IBM buys Sun:

Sun as Sun for its customers will live through as IBM is looking to take
over Sun's customer base and provide them with support and charge them
with big $$$ which probably Sun is/was unable to do.

No one knows what will happen to NetBeans and rest of Open Source
projects which are sponsored by Sun Microsystems.

Best prediction is that IBM keep most Open Source product and push them
as a well integrated, high performance open source bundle for its
customer and charge them $$$$ for service and support.

Worst prediction is that most of these projects end up orphan and die in
Apache incubator or somewhere else.

I blogged about this at
http://weblogs.java.net/blog/kalali/archive/2009/03/ibm_in_talks_to.html

Masoud.

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