So now I see that IBM is talking about buying Sun:

International Business Machines Corp. is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems Inc. in a combination that would bolster IBM's heft on the Internet, in data storage and in government and telecommunications areas, according to people familiar with the matter.

The good news for people interested in Sun is that IBM would jettison all of the "we'll make it up in volume" bozos at Sun (like their CEO), and actually use their services business to start bringing in revenue from Sun's various open source properties.

I have to say, it's amusing that the purchase price would be somewhere in the neighborhood of $6.5B (hat tip Troy - he has a subscription the WSJ, so he has access to that little tidbit). Recall that Sun blew $1B on MySQL not so long ago; I wonder how much more the company would have been worth had they not done that, and instead just made outrageous salary offers to the lead MySQL developers?

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