From: Adam Thornton <athornton@gmail.com>
To: The Eunuchs Hysterical Society <tuhs@tuhs.org>
Subject: Re: [TUHS] A Couple of New Unix Artifacts
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 18:03:45 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAP2nic0ofR2DoTTg+19GQhc=XRvH+k2hPEHquHFipOgEG_Wgfg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e460d5ee-4ed1-d6bb-b5b2-cfefbc88dde7@kilonet.net>
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Well, take it with a grain of salt. I have no actual knowledge of what IBM
was attempting or what really happened. But from where I sat the evidence
was pretty compelling: they wanted an OpenSolaris port enough to give us
some hypervisor changes we asked for (which certainly must have had
substantial engineering costs for them), and it was pretty clear to me at
the time that Sun was looking for a buyer and that IBM would be a natural
entity to buy them.
On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 5:54 PM Arthur Krewat <krewat@kilonet.net> wrote:
> On 9/17/2019 8:47 PM, Adam Thornton wrote:
> >
> > And then IBM pushed too hard on price, apparently not knowing Sun was
> > also sitting on an offer from Larry Ellison.
> >
> > My career would have been very different if that acquisition had
> happened.
>
> Another factoid added to the gestalt in my head.
>
>
> art k.
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>
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-09-18 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-09-17 9:54 Warren Toomey
2019-09-17 9:58 ` SPC
2019-09-17 10:45 ` Angelo Papenhoff
2019-09-17 23:12 ` Dave Horsfall
2019-09-17 23:25 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-09-18 0:47 ` Adam Thornton
2019-09-18 0:54 ` Arthur Krewat
2019-09-18 1:03 ` Adam Thornton [this message]
2019-09-18 9:06 ` Wesley Parish
2019-09-18 14:40 ` Larry McVoy
2019-09-18 16:33 ` Seth Morabito
2019-09-18 21:17 ` A. P. Garcia
2019-09-18 23:05 ` Sergio Aguayo via TUHS
2019-09-18 23:25 ` Warren Toomey
2019-09-19 0:42 ` Nigel Williams
2019-09-19 1:35 ` Gregg Levine
2019-09-19 5:06 ` Lars Brinkhoff
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