While I think that it makes good sense for Oracle to sell off the hardware business that they acquired from Sun, I find it hard to imagine H-P as a potential buyer. I'd be much more likely to believe the story if the buyer were Fujitsu, who has been involved with Sun and SPARC since the 1980's.
Here's why I think that H-P is unlikely to do this:
They are trying to focus more on their services business, having recently spent $14 Billion acquiring EDS
The SPARC line and the Solaris operating system would
HP buying the SPARC hardware biz -- seems unlikely (Score:5, Insightful)
Here's why I think that H-P is unlikely to do this:
Re:HP buying the SPARC hardware biz -- seems unlik (Score:3, Insightful)
desktops???? hp's x86 server line is very successful, and those DL and ML lines are Compaqs