Although it is a global recession time, it's going to be a clash of the titans for an ill titan, Sun Microsystems, which has not been keeping well since the dotcom bust during 2000 - 2001. IBM is in lieu of buying out SUN for USD 6.5 billion in cash, for the sake of making computing sky cloudy. But, will IBM be left alone in its pursuit of making computing sky cloudy? No points for guessing!!!
The chances are highly likely that HP, the world's biggest computer-maker, Cisco, the world's biggest maker of routers, Dell, Amazon, the world's biggest online retailer, Google, the world's biggest in online search and advertising, and Microsoft, the world's biggest and best in desktop computing software are going to take each other head on to get SUN on its side.
Well, is it worth fighting for? Definitely. The advantages are manifolds, but the two most apparent ones are:
1) SUN's poor health on the stock market, and because of which it could be bought for an under-valued price.
2) Its well-demonstrated capabilities in Data Centres and in cloud.
Titans, go get SUN, and give us cloud -- public and private.
