{"id":211,"date":"2009-03-20T10:59:01","date_gmt":"2009-03-20T14:59:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=211"},"modified":"2009-03-20T19:56:40","modified_gmt":"2009-03-20T23:56:40","slug":"ibm-and-sun-meet-in-the-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2009\/03\/20\/ibm-and-sun-meet-in-the-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM and Sun meet in the ‘cloud’"},"content":{"rendered":"

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School of Management Professor N. “Venkat” Venkatraman<\/a>, chairman of the Information Systems Department, says a would-be acquisition of Sun Microsystems by IBM could well serve IBM’s push to lead the effort to create for a “smarter” business infrastructure.<\/p>\n

“IBM’s supposed move to acquire Sun Microsystems is seen in some quarters as a radical shift in IBM’s strategy away from its recent focus on software and services back to hardware.\u00a0 I see it less about going back to hardware but more in tune with IBM’s recent push to be a force shaping the new ‘smarter’ business infrastructure in tune with the Obama administration’s vision.<\/em><\/p>\n

“It is also very consistent with IBM’s vision of ‘cloud computing’ with more and more services delivered from the cloud.\u00a0 Just as IBM’s acquisition of Lotus gave them a springboard into middleware in the 1990s, this acquisition will give them a dominant position in their fight against HP and Cisco in the short-term and Google, Salesforce.com and others in the longer-term as the IT architecture shifts to the cloud.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Contact N. “Venkat” Venkatraman, 617-353-7117, venkat@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

School of Management Professor N. “Venkat” Venkatraman, chairman of the Information Systems Department, says a would-be acquisition of Sun Microsystems by IBM could well serve IBM’s push to lead the effort to create for a “smarter” business infrastructure. “IBM’s supposed move to acquire Sun Microsystems is seen in some quarters as a radical shift in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[647,645,646],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}