The Unix Guardian: Sun-HP Unix Merger: Beware of Olive Branches Shaped Like Baseball Bats

“One of the great things about the Unix business over the years
is that it has had a wide variety of players. No two companies
represent the polar opposites of this business more than do
Hewlett-Packard and Sun Microsystems. One is the quiet vendor,
creating great technology and slowly (over 34 years) building up a
vast commercial server customer base, including proprietary and
then Unix machines; the latter has only been in the commercial
server racket since 1991 (15 years) and shoots off its mouth
incessantly about how great its products are–often with good
reason.

“So many of the Unix players are dead or dying, and today the
Unix server business is dominated by the big three–HP, Sun, and
IBM–in terms of revenue…”

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