Ballmer: the acquisition of Sun by IBM is beneficial to Microsoft

Microsoft CEO Ballmer said today that the merger of IBM sun will bring benefits to Microsoft, because it takes a long time for IBM to take over a large number of Sun production lines to integrate the two companies.

In an interview with The New York Times, Ballmer said: "We have a competitive relationship with IBM in many aspects, and I don't think this situation will happen strategically, IBM needs one to two years to integrate and digest Sun. I like this year."

In a further evaluation of the possibility of this transaction, Ballmer said that the IBM acquisition is a good "withdrawal strategy" for Sun shareholders, but he questioned why IBM wants to buy sun, sun has a complex product line, including a series of hardware and software products, many of which overlap with existing IBM products, which only increase the burden on IBM.

"If you want to buy sun, you have to take over a lot of things. I think you need to decide whether you really want everything," Ballmer said ." Microsoft and sun and IBM are both competitors. However, in the past few years, due to the decline of sun, the competition between Microsoft and it is no longer so fierce, but they are still in the fire with IBM, fierce competition exists in many commercial software products, including middleware, application software development infrastructure, database technology and workgroup collaboration software.