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Still mad at IBM for screwing the pooch on that one. They basically handed the company to Oracle.

Did IBM consider purchasing Sun?

Yes, although IBM only wanted Java and was planning to cancel SPARC and maybe Solaris.

Makes sense given that IBM already had the POWER arch & AIX, which was based on BSD rather than SysV for Solaris.

Kind of like Oracle did.

Oracle also tried to kill MySQL, with extremely amusing results.