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Auteur: Arnt Karlsen
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À: dng
Sujet: Re: [DNG] Well, this is interesting
On Mon, 29 Oct 2018 08:43:29 +0100, Didier wrote in message
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> Le 29/10/2018 à 03:51, Rick Moen a écrit :
> > Quoting hal (vmlinux@???):
> >
> >> 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?

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..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.