If IBM/Sun breaks down, what happens to Sun?, Apr 05, 2009

It appears that the IBM/Sun deal is dead in the water. This wouldn't be the first, or last, time people threatened to walk out of a deal as a negotiating tactic. IBM buying Sun is the best possible thing that could happen to Sun and its product lines. Sun has been dying for years. The market, which has seen Sun's stock drop 79% in 2008 alone, certainly knows it.

It comes as both a surprise and not a surprise that the New South Wales (NSW) state government chose a "safe bet" of Lenovo and Microsoft to supply many thousands of taxpayer-funded laptops to secondary school students. Was Linux ever on the short list?

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