[c-nsp] [cisco-voip] I.B.M. Said to Be in Talks to Buy Sun for $7 Billion - NYTimes.com

[Jorge Evangelista]

There is a poll about matter.

http://gigaom.com/2009/03/18/why-cisco-not-ibm-should-buy-sun/

Regards



On Thu, Mar 19, 2009 at 12:45 PM, Paul <asobihoudai at yahoo.com> wrote:

>
> That's understood. Lelio said that he thought Cisco would fit well with
> Sun.
>
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: Charles Wyble <charles at thewybles.com>
> To: Paul <asobihoudai at yahoo.com>
>  Cc: Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca>; cisco-voip voyp list <
> cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
> Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 1:39:24 PM
> Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] I.B.M. Said to Be in Talks to Buy Sun for $7
> Billion - NYTimes.com
>
> Um.... Cisco isn't rumored to be buying Sun. IBM is rumored to be buying
> SUN.
>
> Paul wrote:
> > One problem I would see immediately would be that Sun just bought Innotek
> for a good sum and they seem to be pushing for their own virtualization
> methods. This would bump heads with Vmware, Cisco's virtualization partner,
> and could cause potential squabbles. Also I don't see Cisco moving their
> applications to Solaris x86 or SPARC after investing so much in Linux. While
> Sun is a big supporter of Linux, their baby is still Solaris.
> > I work with one of the original ActiveVoice folks and he said that
> working with Cisco after the purchase for a year was okay until he got a
> Cisco manager swapped in for his former ActiveVoice boss.
> >
> > Is Cisco becoming another inflexible, slow behemoth like Microsloth? One
> Cisco guy I spoke to casually voiced the worry that Cisco was becoming less
> of a "fun" place to work at.
> >
> > ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > *From:* Lelio Fulgenzi <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
> > *To:* Paul <asobihoudai at yahoo.com>
> > *Cc:* cisco-voip voyp list <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
> > *Sent:* Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:15:08 AM
> > *Subject:* Re: [cisco-voip] I.B.M. Said to Be in Talks to Buy Sun for $7
> Billion - NYTimes.com
> >
> > I'm sure in the long list of companies acquired by Cisco, there have been
> cultural differences. I recall someone telling me once that when Cisco
> bought ActiveVoice there were plenty of differences. Something about a slide
> from the top floor into the office of one of the developers. ;)
> >
> > With Cisco's foray into blade computing, I would have thought this fit
> right in.
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Paul" <asobihoudai at yahoo.com>
> > To: lelio at uoguelph.ca, "cisco-voip voyp list" <
> cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
> > Sent: Thursday, March 19, 2009 10:07:12 AM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> > Subject: Re: [cisco-voip] I.B.M. Said to Be in Talks to Buy Sun for $7
> Billion - NYTimes.com
> >
> >
> > The companies couldn't be any more different in terms of culture. I could
> see the majority of Sun's brainpower jumping ship before the ink on the
> buying contract even dries.
> >
> > You don't see things like dtrace and ZFS coming out of IBM.
> > pathetic. . .
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message ----
> > From: "lelio at uoguelph.ca" <lelio at uoguelph.ca>
> > To: cisco-voip voyp list <cisco-voip at puck.nether.net>
> > Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 6:57:42 PM
> > Subject: [cisco-voip] I.B.M. Said to Be in Talks to Buy Sun for $7
> Billion - NYTimes.com
> >
> > I'm surprised Cisco didn't go after this.
> >
> >
> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/19/technology/companies/19sun.html?ref=technology
> >
> >
> > Lelio Fulgenzi, Senior Analyst
> > Computing & Communications
> > University of Guelph
> > 519-824-4120 x56354
> >
> > ....sent from my iPod - please pardon my fat fingers ;)
> >
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