NPR news item: IBM to acquire Red Hat

[Matthew Lawson]

Financial market players are less than impressed.  The deal is being characterized as a "hail mary" on IBM's part.  Amazing gift to RHEL shareholders, for sure.

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On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 1:39 PM, Ed Booher <edbooher at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, it broke yesterday and has been all over both IBM and Red Hat's websites. Bit fearful of what this might mean for the future.
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> On Mon, Oct 29, 2018 at 12:08 PM Pat CINLUG <pat-cinlug at indy.rr.com> wrote:
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>> I just heard on the radio hat IBM is acquiring Red Hat to get the "Linus
>> [sic]" operating system as well as cloud products.
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>> <https://www.npr.org/2018/10/28/661598557/in-major-acquisition-ibm-will-acquire-open-source-software-company-red-hat>.
>>
>> Pat
>
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> "Das beste oder nichts." - Gottlieb Daimler
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