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Having had the fun that is working for a company that gets bought by IBM I wish their workers the best of luck. Hope they enjoy the Blue Washing(TM)
by ngoede 11y ago
Having had the fun that is working for a company that gets bought by IBM I wish their workers the best of luck.
Hope they enjoy the Blue Washing(TM)
- radiorental 11y agoYes, I wonder how many of those 900 will be replaced by watson?
- cookiecaper 11y agoIt's said that Sun turned down IBM's buyout bid and went with Oracle because they thought that there'd ultimately be fewer layoffs with Oracle. Of course, no one really knows how things would've played out if IBM had taken over Sun.
- ghaff 11y agoI was an analyst at the time and an IBM acquisition of Sun never made sense to me. The Oracle acquisition did--even if I didn't personally like it for a variety of reasons.