Re: RE: Re: Solaris not Slowaris

"I didn't see any of you guys crying when the like of DEC or Compaq got swallowed up"

Then you weren't paying attention. Sun folks looked at those deals as huge wrongs on the IT world. It was, and still is, a common refrain that HP killed one of the best CPU's to come out (ALPHA). HP has outsourced most of their IP and by them buying companies that actually created technology instead of buying/renting it was widely chastised (especially by Sun people).

At least if IBM buys Sun they will keep the better stuff and add to it. HP on the other hand would put it in a closet and let it die or sell it to another company and rent it back.

(Matt, please don't bring up printers in this context. No one thinks that HP's "advances" in printing have added anything to the IT world in general)