IBM On The Verge of Buying Sun for $7 billion

This is a shame Sun lost it's way. I was looking forward to playing with one of Sun's coolthreads servers. That's about the only interesting thing happening in hardware these days.

As far as things go this is really a negative. Sun was doing all the right moves (slowly). Interesting hardware - coolthreads, open-sourcing software left and right. IBM has... Linux on mainframes and consulting.

Both Sun and SGI slowly lost out as Apple become the new Unix desktop of choice.

Re: IBM On The Verge of Buying Sun for $7 billion

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Apr 03, 2009, 3:16 AM UTC

adammarkey wrote: post #3

I imagine Netbeans will go the way of the Dodo since the Eclipse project is IBM's baby.

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Re: IBM On The Verge of Buying Sun for $7 billion

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Post by rjurney » Fri, Apr 03, 2009, 4:51 AM UTC

With IBM pushing their own cloud - does this mean I might one day be able to fire up a bunch of 32 thread boxes to do my bidding?

Hey, a guy can dream...

Re: IBM On The Verge of Buying Sun for $7 billion

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Post by rjurney » Fri, Apr 03, 2009, 4:52 AM UTC

spitfire wrote: post #5

This is a shame Sun lost it's way. I was looking forward to playing with one of Sun's coolthreads servers. That's about the only interesting thing happening in hardware these days. As far as things go this is really a negative. Sun was doing all the right moves (slowly). Interesting hardware - coolthreads, open-sourcing software left and right. IBM has... Linux on mainframes and consulting. Both Sun and SGI slowly lo…

They're interesting, but you have to BUY them to play with them :(

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Post by signa11 » Fri, Apr 03, 2009, 5:13 AM UTC

adammarkey wrote: post #3

I imagine Netbeans will go the way of the Dodo since the Eclipse project is IBM's baby.

total eclipse of the sun. sorry couldn't resist :o)

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Post by mridulkhan » Fri, Apr 03, 2009, 8:12 AM UTC

adammarkey wrote: post #3

I imagine Netbeans will go the way of the Dodo since the Eclipse project is IBM's baby.

Netbeans has been showing some real improvements recently, it'd be a shame if it gets killed. I'm hoping they'll maintain both, like Autodesk is doing with 3ds Max and Maya.