ServerWatch: Enterprise Unix Roundup: The Convenience of Convergence

"Convergence also makes for a nice marketing term, providing no one looks too closely or questions what you're doing. We've found the four syllable word to sound great in a glossy marketing brochure but have little meaning in the corporate jungle.

"On Wednesday, as HP was preparing for what has been universally described as a love-fest with Intel and Oracle, Sun CEO Scott McNealy posted an open e-mail to HP CEO Mark Hurd with the subject line, 'Let's converge HP-UX with Solaris 10...'"

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