[geeks] Sun a possible takeover target - rumours

[Mike Ekholm]

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On Wed, May 07, 2003 at 11:06:29AM -0400, Michael A. Turner wrote:
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> 	Now to the geekly discussion. Which would be worse as a purchaser of
> sun? Would it be HP because they would gut the hardware and destroy it ala
> the Alpha, or Microsoft because they would destroy the operating system?

It would be a slap in McNealy's face for Microsoft to by sun.  I could not
see HP buying sun, because they are still working on digesting compaq. I could
see fujitsu buying sun, they seem to be the largest competitor for sparc
based hardware.  IBM is also a possibility.

 -Mike Ekholm
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