Merger of Giants?

I am curious about IBM's motivation for the transaction. Sun Microsystems has struck me as strategically adrift over the past few years. Several years ago, Sun came roaring onto Wall Street providing relatively low-cost alternatives to mainframe deployments. Life was good until the PC revolution hit, and the subsequent open-source movement. Sun eventually opened Solaris to the open-source community and moved to adopt the Intel architecture for many of its hardware offerings. IBM, on the other

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