Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 6th Apr 2009 00:04 UTC, submitted by google_ninja
We've been following the recent news about IBM potentially buying Sun, and the internet had more or less accepted that big blue was going to be the new owners of Sun Microsystems. However, the omnipresent "people close to the matter" have told the New York Times that IBM has withdrawn its offer, and that the deal is now off.
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Thom, HP is not going to buy Sun. HP is busy digesting EDS at the moment, so you can strike them from the list of Sun suitors. HP wants to grow their services division not take on Sun IP.
Dell is the only American company that makes sense. They don't have any high end enterprise systems or any Unix presence. I don't see any indication Dell wants to focus on anything other then x86 hardware though, so I don't think that is going to happen.
Sun is pretty unattractive aside from the legacy of the company. There's nothing I can see a company paying for that they wouldn't rather pick up at an estate sale minus the rest of the company.