With the big buzz about 'cloud computing' of which Amazon is the pioneer, 3 big IT companies - Cisco, HP & IBM are now battling to become a leader in that data center technology market.
After Cisco willing to enter the server market, IBM has raised the stake by offering to buy Sun for $6.5B which is double what the company market cap was worth the day before the acquisition talks were reported, but less than half what the company was worth a year earlier.
What Sun has to offer: open-source Solaris operating system, the open-source database MySql, the Java platform and sun servers.
If this acquisition is materialised IBM will become the leader in java technology with its websphere application solutions.
Become a much greater stakeholder in the open-source domain with opensolaris, mysql - the worldwide famous database solution: it's the M in LAMP (Linux Apache MySql Php), and also staroffice / openoffice the office suite.
IBM will also dominate the unix market with his AIX solutions competing only with HP's HP-UX.
Oracle has it! Oracle won the battle to take over Sun. :s/sun/oracle/g
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