The New York Times is reporting (via Slashdot) that IBM and Sun are in talks regarding the former acquiring the latter.
The Wall Street Journal, quoting “people familiar with the matter,” reported Wednesday that International Business Machines was in talks to buy Sun for at least $6.5 billion in cash, a premium of more than 100 percent over the company’s closing share price Tuesday. Officials of Sun and IBM could not immediately be reached for comment.
This is an interesting development considering Sun’s recent acquisition of MySQL AB, and IBM’s speculated interest in Zend, the primary developers of PHP. Such a series of purchases would put IBM in a solid position to start using buzzwords like “cloud computing.”