On Sun, 28 Oct 2018, 22:22 Chris Murphy, <li...@colorremedies.com> wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Antonio Trande <anto.tra...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion" > > > > > https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-is-reportedly-nearing-deal-to-acquire-red-hat.html > > > Official press release. > > https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/red-hat-ibm-creating-leading-hybrid-cloud-provider > > The reported deal is $34 billion, and Red Hat's closing market cap on > Friday was ~$20 billion, that's a big price premium. I'm not a lawyer > let alone a securities lawyer, but my guess is if Red Hat management > had refused the deal, I think they'd face shareholder lawsuits. So > anyone looking to be mad, it would be completely understandable, but > this is basically a shareholder driven deal. > > Also, "distinct unit" is vague and next to meaningless. Until > acquisition details are released, there's no way of knowing exactly > what level of autonomy Red Hat is going to have, let alone what it > means for CentOS and Fedora. > > For what it's worth, SUSE and openSUSE have been through a few of > these over the years, and openSUSE is still kicking. > > > I hope many red hatters working in Fedora have stock and/or options! > /Andreas > -- > Chris Murphy > _______________________________________________ > devel mailing list -- devel@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to devel-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: https://getfedora.org/code-of-conduct.html > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/devel@lists.fedoraproject.org >
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