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The largest software acquisition ever: IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B
Posted by:
Ludwig
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Date: October 28, 2018 07:41PM
The largest software acquisition ever: IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/28/biggest-software-acquisition/
https://techcrunch.com/2018/10/28/biggest-software-acquisition/
Re: The largest software acquisition ever: IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B
Posted by:
steve jobs
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Date: October 28, 2018 10:03PM
Wow, oh wow, oh wow !
billions of dollars mean nothing in the next life
billions of dollars mean nothing in the next life
Re: The largest software acquisition ever: IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B
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Waste of $$$
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Date: October 29, 2018 12:05AM
Red Hat is old technology.
Re: The largest software acquisition ever: IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B
Posted by:
jobs
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Date: October 29, 2018 08:22AM
linux is not new and redhat is the strongest linux and the cloud runs on linux...but if redhat is owned, there are many other flavors to choose from...definitely not a monopoly worth paying so much
Re: The largest software acquisition ever: IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B
Posted by:
guest 9998
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Date: October 29, 2018 12:10PM
I was going to write an impact article on software and why "software author liability" is important BUT ...
$34B is ALLOT OF MONEY
it's too soon to tell what it means
it COULD BE A BAIL-OUT allowing redhat owners to retire (make their investment liquid), which is a common move in business. it would involve later favors going the other way
it may have no impact on redhat because it may be purely a financial move
we'll see
Re: The largest software acquisition ever: IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B
Posted by:
6w44e
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Date: October 29, 2018 12:13PM
(it could be good news. however it's way too soon to tell.)
Re: The largest software acquisition ever: IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B
Posted by:
Ludwig
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Date: October 29, 2018 01:54PM
Anybody remember OS2 Warp???
Re: The largest software acquisition ever: IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B
Posted by:
Computer Geek
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Date: October 29, 2018 04:46PM
Ludwig Wrote:
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> Anybody remember OS2 Warp???
No necessarily OS/2 Warp, but I did buy the regular OS/2 from Egghead back in the day for $10.99 on clearance. It consisted of 72 1.44MB discs. That was a damn long installation process.
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> Anybody remember OS2 Warp???
No necessarily OS/2 Warp, but I did buy the regular OS/2 from Egghead back in the day for $10.99 on clearance. It consisted of 72 1.44MB discs. That was a damn long installation process.
Re: The largest software acquisition ever: IBM to buy Red Hat for $34B
Posted by:
steve jobs
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Date: October 29, 2018 09:19PM
Ludwig Wrote:
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> Anybody remember OS2 Warp???
os2 was ahead of it's time and microsoft totally stabbed ibm in the back by "independently" developing windows 3 at the same time
bill gates was the precursor of the scum that run silicon valley today and even his charities are death by vaccines
mystery babylon is well on it's way...but i digress
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> Anybody remember OS2 Warp???
os2 was ahead of it's time and microsoft totally stabbed ibm in the back by "independently" developing windows 3 at the same time
bill gates was the precursor of the scum that run silicon valley today and even his charities are death by vaccines
mystery babylon is well on it's way...but i digress