Thursday, June 02, 2005

Sun's rivals

Sun to Buy StorageTek for $4.1 Billion
Thursday June 2, 4:28 pm ET
By Matthew Fordahl, AP Technology Writer

Gordon Haff, an analyst at the research firm Illuminata, said acquiring StorageTek would distance Sun from its past and make the company more closely resemble its archrivals Hewlett-Packard Co. and IBM Corp.

It is getting clear who are the competitors for Sun Microsystems.
HP & IBM.

I am woundering if it was Microsoft's startegy wo settle with Sun so that Sun battles with IBM - hence leaving Windows to get a greater win - long term.

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