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Is IBM on a Strategic Path to Control Java?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the chin-scrathing-speculation dept.

nightspd writes "David Berlind of Cnet has written a series of articles over at ZDNet about IBM's return to market dominance, including this one titled When Will IBM Buy Sun? It's a VERY interesting read and a very interesting predition, and poses a question. With the mega-merger of Compaq and Hewlett-Packard going forward, can we expect other possible mega-mergers down the line in the tech arena? Is a IBM buyout of Sun possible and/or viable?"

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  1. Yes. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    And they'll open-source Java. And everyone will start coding their applications for the java virtual machine, and Microsoft will be like "shit!" and WINE will be like "okay, we can go home" and we'll be like "look, C#, it's not that I don't love you. But I'm not in love with you."

    fourth-quarter 2002. You heard it here first!

  2. Re:name game by kenthorvath · · Score: 4, Funny
    I like Big Blue's current name. The perfect slogan would be:

    IBM, do you?

    DISCLAIMER: THIS IS NOT OFFTOPIC!