Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 3rd Dec 2002 01:59 UTC
SUN Microsystems Recently, a few independent departments (Solaris, java, Netscape and other middleware) at Sun Microsystems got integrated into one, the Platform/Software Group. We had a quick chat with Mr John Fowler, Sun Software's CTO about Solaris 10, Java, the competition and more.
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re: Jon
by Simba on Tue 3rd Dec 2002 20:17 UTC

"MS is know to have 46,000,000,000+ in the bank, so yes they could by them in a hostile take over if they could find sellers."

And assuming the government would approve the sale, which they probably wouldn't given Microsoft's current status in the eyes of the government. I'm sure the government would step in on this one and prevent the sale.