Did IBM consider purchasing Sun?

wmf 2 days ago | parent [-]

Yes, although IBM only wanted Java and was planning to cancel SPARC and maybe Solaris.

jeberle 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

Makes sense given that IBM already had the POWER arch & AIX, which was based on BSD rather than SysV for Solaris.

whartung 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Kind of like Oracle did.

	▲	rbanffy 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		Oracle also tried to kill MySQL, with extremely amusing results.