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
Sun's competition is pushing real hard
to get customers to defer or cancel Sun sales in favor of their products. One way is FUD, suggesting that, for example, Oracle will cancel the Sun hardware lines.
I see this as an another FUD effort, suggesting that H-P, who only buys companies up to cancel their hardware, would buy Sun from Oracle.
Another tactic is to start rumors that the U.S. DoJ and the EU will have to investigate.
The longer they can get people to defer Sun purchases, the better chance they have of selling their products in lace of Sun's. So expect lots more rumors to be "placed", with slashdot being a target for this kind of FUD.
P.--dave
since when is Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt about risky undertakings a bad thing? A company that is buying big unix iron isn't going to risk buying from a vendor that isn't going to be there in a year. There is no way of knowing whether the Sun hardware line will exist in a year.
COMPASS [for the CDC-6000 series] is the sort of assembler one expects from
a corporation whose president codes in octal.
-- J.N. Gray
HP buying the SPARC hardware biz -- seems unlikely (Score:5, Insightful)
Here's why I think that H-P is unlikely to do this:
I'd FUD this too, if I was an (evil) competitor (Score:2)
Sun's competition is pushing real hard to get customers to defer or cancel Sun sales in favor of their products. One way is FUD, suggesting that, for example, Oracle will cancel the Sun hardware lines. I see this as an another FUD effort, suggesting that H-P, who only buys companies up to cancel their hardware, would buy Sun from Oracle.
Another tactic is to start rumors that the U.S. DoJ and the EU will have to investigate.
The longer they can get people to defer Sun purchases, the better chance they have of selling their products in lace of Sun's. So expect lots more rumors to be "placed", with slashdot being a target for this kind of FUD. P.--dave
Re: (Score:2)
since when is Fear, Uncertainty and Doubt about risky undertakings a bad thing? A company that is buying big unix iron isn't going to risk buying from a vendor that isn't going to be there in a year. There is no way of knowing whether the Sun hardware line will exist in a year.