If IBM really want to buy Sun Microsystems Inc., which is the world's largest Unix server vendors to acquire the second largest vendor of Unix servers. Acquisition speculation in the field of people, Unix servers may be not Sun's Java and MySQL technologies as of concern. However, Unix server market is to allow the management of this department have taken note of the acquisition. According to research firm IDC data, Sun will enable IBM to acquire the world's Unix server market share of two-thirds. IBM's Unix servers last year, sales are 6.4 billion U.S. dollars, share of the global market share of 37.2%. and Sun's Unix servers last year, sales are 4.8 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for global market share of 28.1%. Hewlett-Packard ranked third, Unix server sales are 4.6 billion U.S. dollars, accounting for global market share of 26.5 %. At the other, after Hewlett-Packard Unix server vendors are single-digit market share.
According to IDC, said, Unix server sales accounted for the fourth quarter last year, the entire server market sales of 36%. Windows and Linux servers to continue to erode Unix servers at the data center deal with job share. However, many businesses and government agencies still rely on Unix server to run its critical applications and databases.
IBM large computer market. The United States in Washington Computer and Communications Industry Association President and CEO Ed Black for IBM through the acquisition of Sun to obtain a majority share of Unix server market prospects, especially the rule of high-end Unix server market prospects, are worried about .
HP's Itanium-based processors running HP-UX operating system, Unix servers, and Sun's UltraSparc processor-based Solaris operating system to configure advanced server, such as high-end Unix servers are often used as a substitute for large-scale computer products.
Black said, IBM after the acquisition of Sun no doubt will be the monopoly of large computer market. Required the user's selection of alternative products. However, if the IBM acquisition of Sun, will eliminate the enormous competition. Black's trade organization represents Google, Oracle , Red Hat, AMD and Microsoft and other companies.
IBM in the large-scale computer market dominance has been facing legal challenges. In January this year, a Tampa, Florida, known as T3 Technologies, Inc. a large computer manufacturers to the European Commission put forward a complaint, alleging that IBM refused to sell their customers T3's z / OS operating system. IBM rejected the allegations, and allegations of attempts to violate its intellectual property rights T3.
Another is located in WA Trade Organization Software and Information Industry Association president Ken Wasch said he thinks IBM acquisition of Sun will not give rise to antitrust struggle. This Trade Organization members include IBM, Sun, Oracle and many other manufacturers.
Wasch said that antitrust issues are generally only in the following circumstances will occur, that is a major vendor to acquire a smaller competitor, then the use of enhanced market power to prevent new entrants and control of product prices. He believes that if IBM and Sun agreed to acquire transaction, management would not raise any warning. absolutely not to be worried that the Ministry of Justice to stop this merger.
Obama has been nominated President of the United States Christine Varney served as the U.S. Department of Justice antitrust person in charge of the department. If the signing of the merger agreement, Varney will examine the possible merger antitrust significance. Varney was in 1998 at Netscape Communications Corporation lawyer. At that time, the Ministry of Justice antitrust case Microsoft start time. Computer and Communications Industry Association and the Software and Information Industry Association have expressed support for this case.
Varney the beginning of this month, held at the Senate confirmation hearing that she antitrust problem in the treatment when there is some flexibility. She said that the need for the U.S. response to the ever-changing idea of the market conditions.
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