Greed

Isn't everything that has caused the global recession just down to greed?

If some people took their snouts out of the trough, then perhaps mankind would actually be better.

But greed rules, fact of life.

People are not important to the corporate piggies (with or without pony-tails!), they only people that will win from a IBM-Sun tie-up are the corporate officers, not the poor sods who work for Sun (or formerley StorageTek - double the pain for the few that are left)