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Story: Sun wants to buy Novell

Posted by: Anonymous (Monday 2 August 2004, 8:57 PM)

Sun used to be the company of choice for the guys behind Linux. Strangely, Sun decided to act more like the "big guys," just as those big guys (HP, IBM, SGI, etc.) started acting more like Sun. Now, Sun is pulling a classic dinosaur strategy: buy coolness. Since many developers no longer trust Sun, especially due to its recent truce with Microsoft, Sun wants to buy that trust back through Novell.

Sorry, but it won't work. Sun has already shot itself in the foot, insisted on walking to the hospital, and applied a tournequitte to the wrong body part. It's going to take a few smart moves to get turned around.

I remeber McNealy once writing that a company that must *buy* innovation isn't as good in the marketplace as a company that innovates on its own.