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Re:IBM in Talks to Buy Sun in Bid to Add To Web Heft by Xichekolas on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @11:21AM (#521769)
Except that IBM has been selling their hardware units off for years... hard drives to Hitachi, laptops to Lenovo, etc. IBM's core competency now is consulting services supporting software.

I think Sun makes sense for them to acquire (their business models are becoming quite similar already)... but IBM's days of having a hardware focus are over.

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Re:IBM in Talks to Buy Sun in Bid to Add To Web Heft by TJensen on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @11:53AM (#521834)
Do you think their HPC and server hardware will go, too? I'm guessing they'll stay in whatever hardware business is not commoditized, which means a lot of Sun's hardware fits into IBM's portfolio.
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Re:IBM in Talks to Buy Sun in Bid to Add To Web Heft by Xichekolas on Wednesday March 18, 2009 @12:16PM (#521894)
Yeah definitely agree that they'll stay in HPC... like you say, anything that is custom and requires design/support.
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