{"id":632,"date":"2009-03-18T13:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-18T13:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/?p=632"},"modified":"2009-03-18T13:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-18T13:08:00","slug":"if-ibm-buys-sun-will-the-lawsuits-continue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/18\/if-ibm-buys-sun-will-the-lawsuits-continue\/","title":{"rendered":"If IBM buys Sun, will the lawsuits continue?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s news of negotiations between IBM and Sun could have a direct effect on NetApp users and also on the NetApp \/ IBM  relationship of re branded filers. After all Sun makes the ZFS powered <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/biztech\/2008\/07\/09\/sun-trumps-its-own-thumper\/\">Thumper <\/a>and there are<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theregister.co.uk\/2008\/10\/07\/sun_gets_netapp_patent_invalidated\/\"> lawsuits<\/a> between Sun and NetApp about ZFS and Ontap.  If IBM buys Sun &#8211; wouldn&#8217;t that mean that IBM is now suing its partner NetApp?<\/p>\n<p>Also, how would IBM position its re branded filers against its own Sun products? IBM is a big portion of NetApp&#8217;s sales  and this acquisition could seriously jeopardize the relationship between the two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB123735124997967063.html#mod=djemalertTECH\">Here is the article:<\/a><\/p>\n<pre wrap=\"\"><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\">Technology Alert<\/span><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\">from The Wall Street Journal<\/span><br \/><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\">March 18, 2009<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\">International Business Machines is in talks to buy Sun Microsystems in a combination that would bolster IBM's heft on the Internet, in data storage and in government and telecommunications areas, according to people familiar with the matter.<\/span><br \/><br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(51, 102, 255);\">It is unclear whether the negotiations will result in a transaction, but if the deal does go through, IBM is likely to pay at least $6.5 billion in cash to acquire Sun, the people said. That would translate into a premium of about 100% over Sun's closing share price Tuesday.<\/span><br \/><\/pre>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img width='1' height='1' src='https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/11084229-4295108568017780237?l=zerowait.blogspot.com' alt='' \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning&#8217;s news of negotiations between IBM and Sun could have a direct effect on NetApp users and also on the NetApp \/ IBM relationship of re branded filers. After all Sun makes the ZFS powered Thumper and there are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/2009\/03\/18\/if-ibm-buys-sun-will-the-lawsuits-continue\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=632"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/632\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zerowait.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}