Apple buying SUN

[callieX]

There was an article on http://www.osopinion.com about the future of Sun Microsystems. The interesting thing was a post to that article that went as follows:

Re: Is Sun's Vision Clear? Sun and Apple.

With Sun's stock prices down to around $3 per share and the IT market in general suffering, I think that Apple should be seriously considering purchasing Sun.
Apple is now the largest desktop Unix company and they have close relations with Sun. Apple has reignited their enterprise services philosophy with the Xserve and Mac OS X Server and they could use the additional technologies of Sun enterprise. Apple is in good financial status with $6 Billion in cash sitting in the bank and is one of the few computer companies who has remained profitable in the last 2 years.
Anyone Have a thought

calliex

[Hidden Gekko]

If it helps Apple, definantly. Every chance Apple has to get stronger is good oppurtinaty.

[shatfield1529]

Sometimes I think that with all of the iApps that Apple is releasing, the corporate acquisitions, and such, they are doing the exact same thing that Microsoft is doing to monopolize the computer market.

But then I remember that Apple doesn't produce game consoles, own cable channels, publish an e-magazine, or implement DRM measures on their hardware/software.



This was a pointless post on my part, I know. Carry on.

[90X Double Side]

Sun's stock is down all the way to $2.57 now, but that still means that they're worth $8,057,990,850; almost 30% more than Apple is.

[AppMan]

I got a good idea. How about Apple take a portion of that 6.25 billion dollars and send all their customers a two button mouse!

[JetwingX]

just buy an ice mouse form macally...
it's about 20-30 dollars cheeper then appls


anyways. If apple took over SUN we could also have Java along with UNIX in our operating system.


that would be REALLY nice

[sheepguy42]

Originally posted by JetosX
just buy an ice mouse form macally...
it's about 20-30 dollars cheeper then appls


anyways. If apple took over SUN we could also have Java along with UNIX in our operating system.


that would be REALLY nice

I'll assume the "winking smiley" meant you were kidding, seeing as how we *DO* have JAVA. Anyway, along with what 90X Double Side mentioned, I always saw SUN as being bigger than Apple, and even if they were the same size Apple simply isn't big enough or having enough capital to justify such a purchase. Maybe far into the future, if SUN really starts to die or something... obviously Apple is getting stronger... but still, if it's gonna happen it's a loooong way off.

[Rhino_G3]

Originally posted by sheepguy42
and even if they were the same size Apple simply isn't big enough or having enough capital to justify such a purchase.

especialy with the talk of layoffs in the near future...