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    IBM to Buy Sun?

    I’ve been saying for some time that something is going to happen with Sun.  They’re too awesome to wallow in mediocrity.  Now, IBM might be buying Sun for $6.5 Billion.  Sun shares are up (drastically), IBM shares down.  This merger is hard to imagine.  To me, Sun is a great company that is like a boat without a rudder.  They are entrenched in the open source movement, with their purchase of MySQL, but have not shown that they can reconcile other corporate cultures into their own.  It’s hard to imagine that things will be different with integrating their own corporate culture into that of IBM.   But Sun has a vast…