Microsoft to Buy Sun Microsystems (spoof alert)
By Glenn Weadock on Wed, 04/01/09 - 1:22pm.
You may have heard the industry rumors about IBM buying Sun Microsystems. These rumors have floated up from time to time in recent years, but this time they’ve been flying thick and fast, and many industry observers feel that an acquisition is a logical step for IBM to solidify its presence in the server hardware market.
Today, however, a highly-placed source in Redmond (a Microsoft exec I can’t name but who I knew in high school) hinted to me that Microsoft is planning to undercut the IBM deal and buy Sun itself. I told my old classmate that this seems like an unusual move – after all, Microsoft’s business is 99% software and 1% hardware. However, he had more to say.
“Remember several years ago, when Sun chairman Scott McNealy referred to Windows as ‘a partially debugged set of device drivers’? Well, it turns out that neither Gates nor Ballmer ever forgot that remark. Microsoft is going to buy Sun at a fire-sale price and put the engineers to work designing servers optimized for Server 2008.”
I commented that that would definitely be a case of revenge served cold, but my old friend said I hadn’t heard the whole story. “Once the deal is done, word is that Bill and Steve are going to personally hand McNealy his pink slip, sealed between two framed panes of glass, with a plaque on the frame saying ‘Debug this, Java Boy!’.”
You read it here first. (On April first.)
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april foooooooooolsssssssssss!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
good one
bullshit
Please.
Yeah, the microsoft execs are not only so stupid as to spend billions of dollars on revenge, they told your "higher up" "high school" "friend" and he gave it up to you like a virgin on prom night.
OR, alternately, you made it up on your way to work to either (stupid) make a name for yourself and get some blog hits or (illegal) get all your friends a 50c winning day trade on JAVA stock.
You're full of shit. I'm calling it.
Careful there buddy
You may have the SEC knocking on your door this afternoon. Good luck with that.
april fools joke, nothing to call
dude, its an april fools joke, how do you take anything in that post as serious, to bad someone jacked it on that
Nerdy tech blogger arrested
Nerdy tech blogger arrested after he publishes what he thinks will be the April fool's joke of the year; instead charged with manipulating securities markets. Story at 11.
Seriously, (worst case) you've committed securities fraud, and (best case) you just bashed your reputation and gave your readers a reason to never believe anything you write, ever again.
Now may not be the best time to be screwing around with your job security, retard.
Such April fool jokes are dangerous...
... for my health! I nearly bought 10000 of Sun stocks!!! Thankfully I read the last line before hitting the buy button!!!!! Phew!
Good one!
Cool April 1st
As much as I would like to see that, hoping that something good would survive, I don't see MS ever going to that technical level Sun is. They are just two totally different cultures, one depending on technology skills, one marketing (guess which is which) and that combination would be good but unfortunately the larger one doesn't have the management skills to handle it. Even IBM with much wider and older skills/experience has real troubles to manage these merges. They still have internal problems between old, internal organizations from mainframes to micros (in computer business) so getting two very narrowly focused companies as Sun and MS together doesn't seem a good ides?
Jokes can be dangerous
Many business wires just post the headlines and not the whole story. Thus dont be surprised if the SEC does come around.
Very true. I followed a
Very true. I followed a link from just such a wire and was starting to panic till I read the last line. (My husband works for Sun and this has been a stressful enough week with layoffs Monday.)
People... it's a joke. Read the last line...
...in case "Debug this, Java boy!" didn't clue you in. Glad some of you got a laugh out of it! Have a good April 1st everyone.
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