{"id":249,"date":"2009-03-19T09:15:54","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T22:15:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nsrd.wordpress.com\/?p=249"},"modified":"2009-03-19T09:15:54","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T22:15:54","slug":"thoughts-on-ibm-and-sun-in-acquisition-discussions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/2009\/03\/19\/thoughts-on-ibm-and-sun-in-acquisition-discussions\/","title":{"rendered":"Thoughts on IBM and Sun in acquisition discussions&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So the net is rife today with speculation that IBM and Sun are in close discussions on IBM buying Sun. My immediate thoughts are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What will happen to EBS? In the past Sun actively considered replacing EBS NetWorker with NetBackup, but that never went anywhere. Will they replace EBS NetWorker with TSM?<\/li>\n<li>The storage synergies achieved between IBM and Sun would be interesting.<\/li>\n<li>I hope to hell that AIX does <em>not<\/em> replace Solaris. I don&#8217;t want to start any religious OS flame-war, but there&#8217;s a lot of administrators out there, including myself, who would rather have a frontal lobotomy than use AIX over Solaris; there&#8217;s an equal number who&#8217;d feel the reverse. So the two operating systems should <em>not<\/em> be either merged or one replace the other.<\/li>\n<li>The development community is already up in flames over the potential that IBM&#8217;s development tools will replace Sun&#8217;s (either in joy, or horror &#8211; it seems to be in equal measure).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>My 5c worth is different &#8211; I think Sun would be a logical acquisition target for EMC. There&#8217;s good logic to this, I think:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Storage synergies.<\/li>\n<li>Storage enhancements (EMC and tape, at last).<\/li>\n<li>Complete mid-range systems architecture immediately available to EMC, covering Windows, Linux, Solaris.<\/li>\n<li>A better and more feature rich OS for embedded systems (e.g., EDLs).<\/li>\n<li>NetWorker and EBS are practically exactly the same other than a search and replace anyway.<\/li>\n<li>Immediate growth of support capabilities.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If IBM and Sun have reached the point where news of talks have leaked, it seems like it may be too far along. Pity \u2013 I rather preferred the idea of EMC buying Sun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So the net is rife today with speculation that IBM and Sun are in close discussions on IBM buying Sun.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-networker"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pKpIN-41","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nsrd.info\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}