Without commenting on the first part, I suspect there would be anti-trust implications of IBM acquiring Sun. That would also upset a really big company that just gave Sun a whole bundle of money - I'm sure there would be much wailing and grinding of teeth from Redmond. And the reverse would also be true - Armonk would probably oppose a MS-Sun union.
Of course, most market share numbers are based on sales over a given time period. And Apple folks tend to hang on to their machines for a much longer time than PC folks (e.g. I'm typing this on an almost 6-year-old PowerBook G3 running OS X 10.2.8), which means that market share != usage share. A lot of Apple users will even skip a processor generation - people are replacing their old Blue & White G3 towers now with G5 machines. Bring on the G5 PowerBooks!
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Without commenting on the first part, I suspect there would be anti-trust implications of IBM acquiring Sun. That would also upset a really big company that just gave Sun a whole bundle of money - I'm sure there would be much wailing and grinding of teeth from Redmond. And the reverse would also be true - Armonk would probably oppose a MS-Sun union.
Of course, most market share numbers are based on sales over a given time period. And Apple folks tend to hang on to their machines for a much longer time than PC folks (e.g. I'm typing this on an almost 6-year-old PowerBook G3 running OS X 10.2.8), which means that market share != usage share. A lot of Apple users will even skip a processor generation - people are replacing their old Blue & White G3 towers now with G5 machines. Bring on the G5 PowerBooks!