The Government has offered Australia's three mobile operators, and vividwireless, renewal of their existing spectrum allocated on 15 year licences in the late 90s and early 2000s at set prices, while the Government expects to rake in $3 billion.
Computer hardware giant IBM is seeking to clear out from its rival
server makers by acquiring the fast declining Sun Microsystems for
about double its present market value. Sun is currently the number four
server player, while IBM holds a narrow lead at the top over rival
hardware monolith HP.
As the Wall Street Journal report on the
acquisition talks between IBM and Sun pointed out, there are synergies
between the two companies on both the hardware and software fronts.
In the hardware space, while rivals HP and Dell have focussed on cost,
providing cheap Intel-based server technology, IBM and Sun have stuck
to their traditional proprietary high performing non-Intel platforms.
There has been skepticism expressed about IBM's motives for buying
Sun's troubled hardware business, with quite a few pundits pushing the
view that the main benefit for IBM is simply taking a competitor off
the market and getting its customers - a sort of hardware version of
the Oracleacquisition of PeopleSoft.
In the software space, both Sun and IBM have been virulently
anti-Microsoft for the past two decades and are both fervently pushing
the Linux and open source software barrows.
IBM would be particularly well served by Sun's ownership and expertise
in Java for web development and its increasingly popular open source
alternative to Microsoft Office, Star Office - its branded version of
Open Office.
It's hard to see this deal not going through provided IBM gets
shareholder approval. With Sun's shareprice languishing, IBM has been
tipped to pay about double the market value of the company and Sun, a
company being increasingly marginalised, is a willing seller.
David Bass
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