Let's say company B has a history of being managed by smart technically savvy people who developed their own software. Let's also say company C has a history of being a cash mill that just buys other companies, strips the technical staff to the bone marrow, and milks the maintenance and licensing revenue. Perhaps B sees opportunities to consolidate some of the many duplicate and redundant products of C (and with B's own), and use their technical expertise to greatly expand their market with a relatively modest increase in costs.
Just some hypothetical musings... any resemblance to any actual company is purely coincidental. sas On Thu, Jun 22, 2017 at 10:35 PM, Peter <[email protected]> wrote: > Both the ISV do have some similar products. In what way it is going to be > an win-win situation > > On Jun 23, 2017 4:03 AM, "Clark Morris" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > [Default] On 22 Jun 2017 09:05:37 -0700, in bit.listserv.ibm-main > > [email protected] (Tom Conley) wrote: > > > > >On 6/22/2017 11:30 AM, Phil Smith wrote: > > >> John McKown wrote: > > >>> https://www.channele2e.com/news/bmc-acquiring-ca-inc-going-private/ > > >> > > >> If this goes through, I think we'll have to admit that antitrust is > > dead. Remember that DOJ examined the CA-Sterling deal way back in 2000 > for > > antitrust, but let it go through. 17 years later, there are many fewer > > players... > > >> -- > > >> > > > > > >With the current administration and DOJ, you-know-what through a goose, > > >which is bad for all of us. > > > > Given the total size of the market I would say it is almost > > inevitable. The number of mainframe shops probably is continuing to > > decline. Millions of lines of COBOL code have been turfed in favor of > > SAP and its competitors. In recent decades, IBM has not been that > > interested in the small mainframe shop even though these can grow into > > being big mainframe shops. The market for ISVs is shrinking. > > > > Clark Morris > > > > > >---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > >send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN > -- sas ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
