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by thevillagechief 352 days ago
Still mad at IBM for screwing the pooch on that one. They basically handed the company to Oracle.
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glhaynes 352 days ago
Did IBM consider purchasing Sun?
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wmf 352 days ago
Yes, although IBM only wanted Java and was planning to cancel SPARC and maybe Solaris.
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jeberle 351 days ago
Makes sense given that IBM already had the POWER arch & AIX, which was based on BSD rather than SysV for Solaris.
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whartung 351 days ago
Kind of like Oracle did.
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rbanffy 351 days ago
Oracle also tried to kill MySQL, with extremely amusing results.
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