Followup on the Sun-IBM merger

Here's some interesting background from AppleInsider related to the Sun-IBM merger talks and the effect they could have on Apple. I did not realize that before Steve Jobs sold the NextStep operating system to Apple, where it would become the foundation of OS X, he had already sold it once to IBM for $10 million and later to Sun for $11 million. That is some salesmanship.

The article concludes that the merger could be beneficial to Apple:

A merger of IBM and Sun would result in an even tighter relationship with Apple, and could even create a market for licensing Mac OS X Server on enterprise hardware and supporting that software using a services team that Apple lacks the resources to quickly assemble from scratch.