On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 08:43:29 +0100, Didier wrote in message <[email protected]>:
> Le 29/10/2018 à 03:51, Rick Moen a écrit : > > Quoting hal ([email protected]): > > > >> What are the particulars? > > The Bloomberg report > > (https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-28/ibm-is-said-to-near-deal-to- > > +acquire-software-maker-red-hat) > > says this is a _cash_ acquisition, the tender offer being at > > $190/share, which is a huge premium over the stock's closing market > > price of $116.68/share on Friday. The Bloomberg reporters claim > > this is IBM's move to quickly get into cloud computing. > > > > This is by far the largest acquisition IBM has ever carried out, > > and the third largest in USA tech, ever. > > > Not clear what's best, RedHat being bought by IBM, Microsoft, or > Google. > > I was thinking Systemd was made to attract Microsoft or Google; > therefore it's a surprise. Maybe IBM moved to beat the two other. > > Didier ..who of the 3, has had the bigger losses from GNU/Linux qualities, and from the impacts from the distro systemd coups d'etats? ..could this be Big Blue buying Red Hat to kill systemd? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
