The Big Dogs Are Hunting

March 18, 2009
Found this announcement in the overnight news. According to the folks at Bloomberg, IBM is licking its chops over the struggling Sun Microsystems. Long seen as a something of a maverick in the big-iron computer business, Sun also has been the little brother running hard to catch the big kids and--in spite of some excellent products--never quite being able to catch up.
Found this announcement in the overnight news. According to the folks at Bloomberg, IBM is licking its chops over the struggling Sun Microsystems. Long seen as a something of a maverick in the big-iron computer business, Sun also has been the little brother running hard to catch the big kids and--in spite of some excellent products--never quite being able to catch up. Seems like Scott McNealy may finally be getting tired of going it alone and is thinking of cashing in his chips. Stay tuned.

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