Java is safe. For now…

Posted by The Bull
April 6, 2009

IBM has pulled its offer to buy Sun according the NYT:

I.B.M. withdrew its $7 billion bid for Sun Microsystems on Sunday, one day after Sun’s board balked at a reduced offer, according to three people close to the talks.

The article goes on to say that other possible suitors could be HP and Cisco. I think with HP it would be similar to IBM in that HP would buy and dissolve the company with the possible exception of Java. As for Cisco, which is just entering the server business it would be a definite expansion of products all around.

Granted, Java has never really been a money maker for Sun but for IBM Sun’s Java software is a big competitor all the way from JVM to JEE servers. The other two companies don’t have a Java stack at all and would most likely leave the Java side alone, keeping out of Big Blue’s death.

Although IBM has pulled out, there is nothing from them getting back into it, and if Sun’s upcoming earnings report looks bad IBM may be the only one willing to buy them. Let’s hope for the best.

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