Top 4 Things About IBM Buying Sun

Number 4

One less com­pany spout­ing Cloud Computing hyper­bole. Not that there will be any less hot air, just a few less people doing it for a few weeks. At best.

Number 3

We won’t have to look at the CEO thing that pops up every now and then look­ing like a Unix reject from the 1980’s, com­plete with a pony tail hairdo, who almost got the Miami Vice look, but didn’t leave the Unix look behind. Sad.

Number 2

One less com­pet­itor in the Data Centre for Cisco. In fact, pos­sibly the only one who has a chance to do some­thing ori­ginal in the next 24 months. By the time IBM decides to buy, or not buy, the dam­age will be done. It is clear that Sun is up for sale. Who wants to buy Sun Cloud Computing when they might be bought ?

And the num­ber one thing about IBM buy­ing Sun:

Number One

It going to wipe the smiles of the faces all those Solaris admin­is­trat­ors who were firmly con­vinced that they lived in some magic bubble where their poo didn’t stink. Straight after IBM open sources Solaris and puts it on SourceForge your per­cep­tion of your rel­at­ive import­ance is really going to change. Frankly, you deserve IBM.

Yeah you, you super­cili­ous pony tail wear­ing twat. Try laugh­ing at Linux now funny boy.

Really

IBM will buy Sun to get their pro­fes­sional ser­vices and engin­eers but mostly for access to their cus­tom­ers. Everything else will be sold off or open sourced. Sparc is dead:a par­rot with 40 mil­lion volts though it. IBM might keep the stor­age, but they have plenty of options to sell it to Brocade who must be des­per­ate for some ideas right about now. Brocade blew $3 bil­lion on Foundry only to dis­cover that the Cisco has moved fur­ther up the food chain. In fact they did Cisco a favour, remov­ing a com­pet­itor from the market.

Sun isn’t rel­ev­ant to many mod­ern com­pan­ies, only busi­nesses who have leg­acy sys­tems that run on Solaris or spe­cial­ist applic­a­tions that were developed years ago. Sure that’s a big group right now, but that doesn’t make it for­ward look­ing. That’s why the share price has tanked.

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