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By the way, my 2017 wildest forecast: Microsoft may acquire Redhat
by ausjke 10y ago
By the way, my 2017 wildest forecast: Microsoft may acquire Redhat
- dralley 10y agoRed Hat is to some extent protected from acquisition by the ideological poison pill. Because there's no IP (open source), the value of the company is basically the engineering talent, which enables the level of service Red Hat provides. Many of those engineers have very strong opinions about FOSS. The second a Microsoft (or worse, an Oracle) tried to acquire Red Hat, a huge portion of that talent would walk out the door.
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- nl 10y agoNo, the value of RH is in the clients they have, just like every enterprise software company ever. Oracle is notorious for buying companies for their clients, even if everyone quits (eg, hostile takeover of Sieble)
- nul_byte 10y agoThere is more chance of the pope converting to Islam, then MS acquiring Red Hat. That is one acquisition that would turn to shit over night, and MS would be left with just some logos, as the companies main assets (its engineering) would all walk out the door, followed by customers not renewing subscriptions.
- jacques_chester 10y agoThe Microsoft and Red Hat subscriber bases would have massive overlap.
- braderhart 10y agoIt's 2017. Pope converted to Islam and Trump got elected. Didn't you hear?
- braderhart 10y ago2017 forecast... Microsoft acquires Canonical.
- ausjke 10y agothat will be the worst, please don't, of course we still have debian.
- braderhart 10y agoI've moved to Arch. They can have Debian too.