March 19th, 2009 // 25 Comments
Filed: Tech
Yes, the ultimate conquest is about to take place, as Sun launches a daring reverse takeover of IBM and completes its journey to rule the industry. This anyway is how I expect MLP might position the deal. Sure, IBM will try to describe it as buying up a weaker rival for a few billion dollars. But internally, the Kool-Aid drinkers at Sun will know better — what’s really happening is that IBM is finally waving the white flag of surrender, and Sun is just letting them save face. We’ll hear all about the incredible synergies, like how well MySQL (bought for $1 billion) will work with DB2 (ahem). Sadly I’ve been covering this stuff long enough to remember when Sun really did have the upper hand in this market and used to delight in bitch-slapping IBM around in the press. Like this story I did in 1999, where a Sun exec crowed that, “IBM’s problem isn’t Y2K. It’s S-U-N.”
UPDATE: Much love to dear reader Fred Wilson (could it be the Fred Wilson?) who Photoshopped a ponytail onto the tiger tamer.
Full coverage: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zKhEw7nD9C4
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Fire sale or liposuction party at Yahoo! in June
LOl i love how you upcoming events have already happened
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It’s sad, but quite comical how you think that anyone would pay to hear you say anything considering your whole persona is fake and your resentful of other people’s success as well as borderline retarded.
This time the IBMers showed up in ties and bought the place.
Sun was the only company and for a long time positioned to take over the VM market, cloud market (data center market) and control Java market. They blew it all – best hardware, awesome OS and, well, kindasorta java platform. Java used to be and still is a piece of junk. While Scott bickered with Microsoft, BillG created .NET with his gang and killed Java.
No reason to despair though. IPhone 3.0 blows them all away. We are already in the cloud and our stuff is awesome, erm, “Magnificent” as Bono said the other day. Yup, he is back on board after adolescent fiasco with Palm.
@Abort: You tell him! No more of this retarded crap, dogbegone.
Dan… u always make great jobs…
Been a while since our Danny Boy put his hand on the hot stove. Last time FSJ was the one poking the tiger with a stick. Better watch out Danny…
ZDNET chases its tale discussing the IBM-Sun deal.
Remember when Sun would court Apple around, hoping to scoop it up, for god knows what reasons? Now Apple can buy Sun over eight times. Why Apple would want to do such a thing – it’d be better money spent to torment OLPC and frustrate Wintel (and Bill and Melinda Gates) by coming out with a netbook and donating it to villages in Africa and Asia while building and funding some schools and maybe some hospitals.
Or sit on it, waiting for Google to implode, then pounce on that before Microsoft.
ZDNET chases its tale discussing the IBM-Sun deal.
Remember when Sun would court Apple around, hoping to scoop it up, for god knows what reasons? Now Apple can buy Sun over eight times. Why Apple would want to do such a thing – it’d be better money spent to torment OLPC and frustrate Wintel (and Bill and Melinda Gates) by coming out with a netbook and donating it to villages in Africa and Asia while building and funding some schools and maybe some hospitals.
Or sit on its cash pile, waiting for Google to implode, then pounce on that before Microsoft.
@abort give it up dude, you’re wasting bits on the internets that I could use.
In large part, this is McNealy’s fault. He failed the most basic of CEO responsibilities for years after the Internet bubble collapsed in 2000; he failed to bring Sun back to profitability by cutting costs, so the Board replaced him.
Then, he hand-picked Jonathan as his replacement. Jonathan has zero business acumen. He’s been described (perhaps by his own PR people as) “brainy”, and a “visionary”. But in reality, he’s an arrogant Silicon Valley Hype flavored Kool-Aid dispenser.
Then, when Jonathan’s “vision” for Sun failed to produce results quarter after quarter McNealy continued to support him with the Sun Board. (I wonder if McNealy or the Board ever actually looked at the results? Did it ever dawn on them that each-and-every quarter that Jonathan was either COO of CEO that Sun actually shrunk in size? Both Gerstner and Hurd were able to turn around their considerably larger and more complex companies faster than Jonathan was able to run Sun into the ditch.)
This is what happens to companies whose CEO’s fail to manage for shareholder value; they are taken over by those that do, or they are relegated to history’s trash bin.
Please, make sure your interweb tubes are clear and unclogged, to allow the free flow of valuable information logs. This allows us to benefit from users such as Abort, without whom the interweb would be a different place.
FSJ: BillG didn’t create .NET. He hired the brilliant Anders Hejlsberg away from Borland (remember them?) and Anders created it.
@SSteve: Sure, Anders created it but BillG was the moneybags for it allegedly saying “kill java with this money” and so it went.
Of course, people could use our own WebObjects if they knew how. We just dont give a damn about enteprise market at apple. We want the jobless, underpaid consumer to want our premium products, borrow money (ouch) and buy them. And still want more.
I can do no Anders, like Luther said.
I always wanted to see the Sun go down on IBM, but this not exactly what I had in mind.
Pass the popcorn
after june 30:
facebook and twitter absorbed by borg 2.0
yahoo sheds weight, becomes relevent
news corps stops presses, becomes online presence
nytimes turns off presses – online presence
google + apple =~ evil 3.0
bye bye blockbuster
pamela jones revealed to be gay latino crossdresser hacker from ibm legal dept. – dan lyons remarks, “I could have told you as much”
LIAR!LIAR!PANTS ON FIRE!NO FAIR!NO FAIR!IT’S THOSE EVIL MICROSOFT-SCO GANGBANGERS, NO?
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Mr. Peabody fires Linux and hires Sun.
I’ve been in several meetings with Schwartz. A pseudo-intellectual. He thinks well of himself and his big thoughts. But he has not a single positive result to point to.
Sigh. I am not sure if you read your comments, Dan, but I am another signing off the RSS. You happily lambast the tech press, but you really aren’t better. In fact your “I knew this decades ago” schtick is tiresome, and your analysis no better than the irritating and pretentious David Pogue. Irony is, when in ‘character’ you truly had something. Lambasting tired tech fools is also a bore. Give me juice on what’s coming through, not why Schwartz is tanking (yet again).
Out of character, you can’t find a way to just cut to the chase of analysis, and find far too much time to trash everyone else. Your house of cards will crash in on you, and when Newsweek is done – either with you, or in toto – you’ll be as dead as the floppy disk.
Oh, you are so cruel commenting on my past actions… I’ll tell you the truth: My plan was to leave the Board and wait until the members asked me, pleaded me to take back the reigns of the company, so I had to choose someone not smarter than me, so I’d look brilliant with my salvation plan. This is why I choose Jonathan to be the CEO. But he was smart enough to pick up the members of the Board much less intelligent than he was, so they all think he is brilliant! And so, they all have ruined the company.
Dan, please, give Jobso a call, if we merge with Apple I’ll give him my office at the clock tower (this is why the merger failed in the past). And I’ll use a Mac at home instead of my SunRay. Promise.
Close Observer: Anil, is it you again…?
So I gave it 10 ten days since I last checked this lame blog to see what lame stuff Dan might have added…Low and behold…..lig tv izle
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