Seeking Alpha

Google to Acquire Sun? (GOOG, SUNW) 1 comment

by: The New Wall Street March 16, 2006 | about: GOOG / JAVA

Font Size:
Print
Email
TweetThis

A rumor that has been surfacing around the web the past week of an imminent sale of Sun Microsystems to Google. Whether or not there is any truth to these rumors, I don’t know, but for the sake of Google shareholders, I certainly hope not.

Google is a Marketing Technology company. With 99% of revenues coming from their Adwords and Adsense programs, this is hard to argue. Sun Microsystems on the other hand, is a hardware/software company, revolving almost entirely around their “platform

Google, Microsoft and News Corp. Fight While Consumers Stay Anchored to Free Content Nov 27, 2009
9 Things to Be Thankful For This Year Nov 27, 2009
Google to Turn Times Square into a Giant Voice Search Experiment on Friday Nov 26, 2009
Google Profiles Turn into OpenIDs Nov 25, 2009
Murdoch’s Bing Bluster Will Hurt News Corp, Not Google Nov 25, 2009

Related Stocks:

GOOG, JAVA

Print this article with comments

This article has 1 comment:

- Dion Almaer:
- Comments (33)
- •
- almaer.com/blog
Google would be nuts to buy Sun. They are in very different businesses, and Sun can't work out how to make money for the life of them. They have a platform like Java, and IBM makes all of the money from it.

They open source their app server, and it is hardly used (I know they claim lots of downloads). They put a lot of effort into Apache Tomcat and don't get credit for it. Open sourcing Solaris? Just a few years too late.

Ouch.
2006 Mar 16 03:27 PM | Link | Reply