RE: Sun: A CEO's Last Stand (?)

        I think the argument would be that the competition is between companies 
and not their tools.  If Solaris does go open source as Linux did, everyone 
would have access to the same tools. IBM could argue that would increase 
competition and not decrease it.  To make the case more solid IBM would have to 
agree to make Java open source as well, as it has asked Sun to do.
        I just feel that IBM has made a great investment in Java.  I guess it 
depends on the licensing agreement IBM has with Sun but if Sun goes belly-up 
and Java falls into someone else's hands, those hands better be IBM's.
        

Guy Murphy
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UADIS at the University of Illinois
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Does this mean that MS could buy Borland claiming that the "real
competition" is between Java and the rest of the programming languages? 

If your statement is true, that the real competition is between MS and
everyone else, allowing "everyone else" to consolidate into "only IBM"
is just as bad for competition as allowing the two primary unix vendors
to consolidate.

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