Sun runs the Jerry Yang maneuver
The New York Times reports that IBM has withdrawn it’s offer for Sun Microsystems
“after Sun’s board balked at a reduced offer, according to three people close to the talks.”
This can only be bad for Sun. As the NYT notes:-
“Sun’s management has come under repeated criticism for committing ever more deeply to a strategy that revolved around open-source software. Thus far, Sun has struggled to use the freely available software as a means of garnering related technology services contracts or hardware sales. The underlying strategy will probably face even more scrutiny now that customers and investors know that Sun had sought an exit through a deal with I.B.M.”
IBM of all companies knows that open source is a marketing strategy not a business strategy.
As Sun & friends are quick to say “EU are you listening?”