Ibm's Aquisition Target Shouldn't Be Sun

摘要

IBM should buy a Juniper or a Brocade, not Sun Microsystems. It must be tempting for IBM to think about acquiring Sun, a direct competitor. Big Blue would be buying a whole new set of customers, although it would then have to go through the painful and distracting job of rationalizing the two companies, with cuts coming mainly from the Sun side. But such a move would strike a blow in yesterday's war-one that was waged among consolidating computer companies. The new war started just days ago, when Cisco Systems announced its plans to jump into the server market through an architectural play that unites networking and computer systems in a larger offering tailored for today's growing data centers. Cisco plans to integrate servers and networking into a product with new efficiencies. It has the ability to deliver on that vision with its clout in ASICs and merged networks, such as Fibre Channel over Ethernet.