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12 Jan · Thu 2006

Sun almost bought Apple

The Register has an article about how Sun almost bought Apple and almost merged two other separate times. I thought about this for a while, and I think the resulting company would have been ill-suited towards competing in the computing world

Sun traditionally does servers, and does them quite well actually. And traditionally Sun's GUI interfaces are unappealing and simplistic. Of course much of this is changing as GNOME becomes the default interface for Solaris, and tons of opensource software is being ported to work properly on Solaris. But had Apple and Sun merged I think it would have been much worse for both companies, with both companies weaknesses hurting products.

Posted by javawithjiva @ 10:09 PM GMT+06:00 [ Comments [2] ]

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Of course much of this is changing as GNOME becomes the default interface for Solaris..... Yeah, then it will be unappealing and way too complicated.

Posted by O on January 12, 2006 at 11:16 PM GMT+06:00 #

Well, there's a bunch of people inside Sun who think otherwise. Check with the mac-users alias. Would it make sense? I certainly think Sun has little competency in dealing with end users. We're much more comfortable with enterprises. But we've got a history of user interface work, selling workstations (!!our original product line!!), and did enough with user interface design that at one time Tog worked for Sun. And, for that matter, Apple is now selling servers, veering from their own core competency. It's a little hard to play "what if" games second guessing what today would be like if the past had been different.

Posted by David Herron on January 13, 2006 at 08:50 AM GMT+06:00 #

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