India, 04/14/2009: Now that another merger failed in the technology sector, there have been a lot of comments on SUN Microsystems, Inc. following YAHOO,Inc path. But was IBM the right one to take SUN?
SUN stands for Stanford University Network. The company is founded in the year 1982 and is headquartered at Santa Clara, CA. The company was initially into hardware business with SPARC processor based servers and work stations. Later on the company became famous for Unix systems -Solaris. Sun added to what we call the internet revolution with JAVA platform. JAVA has prominent role in the cloud computing architecture that the big techies are proceeding with. They also have products like StarOffice (to compete the Microsoft Office) and MYSQL database. Other technologies include the NFS, Sun ONE.
IBM who have vivid products in different areas - IBM AIX (Unix), DB2 (Database), Symphony (Office Suite) and hardware servers will have almost zero add-on to their billion dollars spend (if the deal had materialized). The Big Blue also have a bigger market share over SUN.
Apple Inc., is popular across all ages for their various hardware and software products. The innovations include Macintosh, OS X, and a list of "i" prefixes such as iTunes, iLife, iWork, iPod, iPhone and so on.
On the other hand, if Apple takes over the struggling tech firm, it would enhance its server market, get introduced to web-cloud, database technologies.
Other MNCs that could have been appropriate owners of SUN are Cisco Systems who recently entered into server business. According to the sources, they also have a cash reserve of about $30 billion. Everyone expected HP to tie up the IBM tender. I expect the acquisition guru Oracle to come into the picture. But again it wouldn't have been an effective deal for the database giant.
Apple who have been voted as the best innovative company for the year ahead of Google, Microsoft; would have been the right choice with the products that SUN own.
But expectations sometime come true. Larry Ellison led Oracle Inc. had proffered Sun with $7.4 billion. Larry is an expert with acquisition. The few advantages I believe on the deal between for Oracle-Sun is that they can concentrate their products more on Solaris environment, Oracle will have an open source step-brother MySQL, Oracle technologies which uses Java platform will get more efficient, Oracle can spread StarOffice usage in reporting.Both Oracle and Sun have their workforce spread across the globe specially in Asia-Pacific region.I am sure Larry and his team have more reasons to take over the shadowing Sun.
SUN stands for Stanford University Network. The company is founded in the year 1982 and is headquartered at Santa Clara, CA. The company was initially into hardware business with SPARC processor based servers and work stations. Later on the company became famous for Unix systems -Solaris. Sun added to what we call the internet revolution with JAVA platform. JAVA has prominent role in the cloud computing architecture that the big techies are proceeding with. They also have products like StarOffice (to compete the Microsoft Office) and MYSQL database. Other technologies include the NFS, Sun ONE.
IBM who have vivid products in different areas - IBM AIX (Unix), DB2 (Database), Symphony (Office Suite) and hardware servers will have almost zero add-on to their billion dollars spend (if the deal had materialized). The Big Blue also have a bigger market share over SUN.
Apple Inc., is popular across all ages for their various hardware and software products. The innovations include Macintosh, OS X, and a list of "i" prefixes such as iTunes, iLife, iWork, iPod, iPhone and so on.
On the other hand, if Apple takes over the struggling tech firm, it would enhance its server market, get introduced to web-cloud, database technologies.
Other MNCs that could have been appropriate owners of SUN are Cisco Systems who recently entered into server business. According to the sources, they also have a cash reserve of about $30 billion. Everyone expected HP to tie up the IBM tender. I expect the acquisition guru Oracle to come into the picture. But again it wouldn't have been an effective deal for the database giant.
Apple who have been voted as the best innovative company for the year ahead of Google, Microsoft; would have been the right choice with the products that SUN own.
But expectations sometime come true. Larry Ellison led Oracle Inc. had proffered Sun with $7.4 billion. Larry is an expert with acquisition. The few advantages I believe on the deal between for Oracle-Sun is that they can concentrate their products more on Solaris environment, Oracle will have an open source step-brother MySQL, Oracle technologies which uses Java platform will get more efficient, Oracle can spread StarOffice usage in reporting.Both Oracle and Sun have their workforce spread across the globe specially in Asia-Pacific region.I am sure Larry and his team have more reasons to take over the shadowing Sun.
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