| Editor's note: We will no longer be publishing the IBM Alert, the last installment will be mailed the week of March 30. Starting April 6 look for our new alert titled: IT Best Practices in your mailbox. We hope you will enjoy this new alert and we thank you for reading Network World newsletters. If you wish to update your newsletter subscriptions, please click here. IBM/Sun deal won’t be about the software, experts say If IBM swings a deal for Sun it won’t hinge on open source interests or software, where the two companies have enough overlap to negate any strategic value, observers say. Could IBM be Sun's savior? Speculation that IBM is planning to acquire Sun has high-tech analysts discussing the pros and cons of the two vendors becoming one Big Blue Sun. Did Cisco UCS bring IBM and Sun together? Did word of Cisco's development of a blade server system -- which took two years and must have had tongues wagging from Silicon Valley to Armonk -- force today's rumored union between IBM and Sun? You can bet it at least heated the discussions up. Techies all a'Twitter over IBM-Sun talks With industry giants IBM and Sun reportedly in merger talks, techies the world over rushed to their keyboards and mobile devices to Twitter about the possibilities. An IBM-Sun tie-up offers few advantages in storage arena With a purchase of Sun, IBM would eliminate its biggest competitor in the high-end tape storage systems market, gain middleware to help manage increasingly complex storage networks and possibly get a leg up on new innovations in solid-state disk technology. IBM, Sun would bring together formidable R&D, research labs Not only would a potential IBM and Sun union bring together the companies' hardware, software and services, but also impressive R&D arsenals. Report: IBM is in talks to buy Sun Global technology giant IBM is in talks to buy Sun in a deal that would expand its server market share, the Wall Street Journal reported Wednesday. Buzzblog: Reactions mixed to report IBM may buy Sun The Internet is ablaze this morning with chatter about a report in the Wall Street Journal that IBM has made a $6.5 billion offer to acquire Sun. IBM software to ease multivendor security management IBM is introducing software that lets customers manage multivendor desktop security agents via a single console, affording them a broader choice of security products without proliferating management platforms. IBM develops Facebook privacy application IBM on Thursday unveiled an application that guides users toward strong privacy settings in Facebook's online marketplace and could be developed into a management tool for companies or across Web sites for users. Cisco says it considered HP, IBM for blade server Cisco considered HP and IBM as blade server partners for its new Unified Computing System, which is designed as a single architecture for data center computing, storage, networking and virtualization. Cisco marketing vice president David Lawler said the company "did have conversations" with HP and IBM about multiple technologies, like unified fabric and the Nexus 1000V virtual switch, which is believed to be an element within UCS. IBM 'online theater' may boost care at Boston hospital IBM is working with a Boston hospital to develop a browser-based application that uses mashups to let medical experts in different locations study patient data as if they were sitting side by side, IBM said Thursday. 50,000 university students get free Lotus Symphony Some 50,000 Australian university students will receive a free version of IBM's Lotus Symphony software this month as part of on-campus promotions managed by StudentRights.com. Enter for a Microsoft training giveaway from New Horizons
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