IBM is courting Sun Microsystems, but analysts believe that it is not an isolated buy out that IBM has in mind. Acquiring Sun Microsystems is probably just the first step on the way to again dominating the corporate computer world.
IBM is probably not just looking to expand their current market share with purchases of companies like Sun Microsystems. They probably have their eye on diversifying into new markets and taking out some of the smaller players in those markets by buying the bigger ones.
If IBM succeeds in those plans they may find themselves dominating like they did in the good old days when mainframe computers were the centerpiece of every corporate IT department and IBM was the king of the mainframes.
The world of IT has changed, but things are actually circling back from distributed computing to visualization where all the computing power is back in the data center and people essentially get dumb terminals again that just get a desktop served from the big iron.
I''m sure Sun Microsystems will play a big role in IBMs plans but they will not be alone. They will have plenty of brother and sister companies to help daddy IBM again conqor the data center.
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