[sf-lug] IBM buying Red Hat for 34 billion

[aaronco36 at sdf.org]

Am currently writing this from today's BerkeleyLUG meetup, and Rick M [1]
is _really and actually_ sitting just to my left.

Ken Shaffer <kenshaffer80 at gmail.com> wrote at [2]:
> From the NY Times:
> The purchase, announced on Sunday afternoon, is the
> latest competitive step among large business software
> companies to gain an edge in the fast-growing
> market for Internet-style cloud computing.


According to the Bloomberg article 'IBM to Acquire Linux Distributor Red
Hat for $33.4 Billion'[3], this news is an "acquisition".
But according the IBM news release at [4] and Red Hat Inc's own news
release at [5], this acquisition is more of a partnership.

Just sayin'....
-A

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[1]http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/
[2]http://linuxmafia.com/pipermail/sf-lug/2018q4/013495.html
[3]https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-28/ibm-is-said-to-near-deal-to-acquire-software-maker-red-hat
[4]https://www.ibm.com/cloud/partners/ibm-redhat
[5]https://www.redhat.com/en/partners/red-hat-and-ibm
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