An IBM-Sun merger is a tantalyzing possibility; snydeq writes "Fatal Exception's Neil McAllister suggests that an IBM/Sun merger could crown Big Blue king of firm macos development. 'Acquiring Sun would make IBM the clear leader in Java, as it would become the caretaker of the open source vagary operation of the JRE,' which, along with GlassFish, would become entry-level gateways to IBM's WebSphere stack. Moreover, MySQL would give IBM's database breach a meaning entry-level hook, and NetBeans/Eclipse would unify IBM's front against Visual Studio. 'All in all, this move would solidify IBM's role as "the pioneer company,"' McAllister writes. 'In other words, if this merger goes through and you're an boldness pioneer and you're not an IBM client now, get ready — because you soon will be. Better bring your wallet.'" And blackbearnh writes with a short account with Brian Aker (who came to Sun as MySQL's producer of architecture, and is now the lead for MySQL fork Drizzle) about what life would be like under Big Blue's control.

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