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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