Sun Thinks About Buying Novell, Just To Upset IBM

from the no-other-reason,-really dept

It appears that Sun COO Jonathan Schwartz has no problems tossing out a few provocative statements to get some headlines or to push a competitor to make an ill-advised move. The latest is the idea that Sun might consider buying Novell, solely for the purpose of taking control of SuSe Linux and upsetting IBM's plans to push companies towards SuSe instead of Red Hat (who has become "too strong" according to Schwartz). While Sun may actually be thinking about such a move (though, it seems unlikely), it is amusing to see Schwartz using interviews and his blog to try to goad IBM into making a move. It really looks like the only point of this discussion isn't to have Sun actually think about buying Novell, but to scare IBM into hastily making a bad move (possibly buying Novell, themselves).
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  1. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 2 Aug 2004 @ 10:06am

    No Subject Given

    Sun does use SUSE for the basis of it's "Java" Desktop.....

    I doubt this would be a good thing for Solaris.

    link to this | view in thread ]

  2. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 2 Aug 2004 @ 11:28am

    Ximian Mono?

    This could be Sun's attempt to kill off Mono, the opensource implementation of MS.NET, otherwise known as Java's main competitor.....

    link to this | view in thread ]

  3. identicon
    Anonymous Coward, 4 Aug 2004 @ 7:47am

    Not to Worrie

    You know... I was thinking of sleeping over in the Lincon room of the White House... just to piss Bush off.

    ...but it's probably not going to happen anytime soon.

    link to this | view in thread ]


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