<html><head></head><body>I worked for IBM for a bit. It was strange.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On October 28, 2018 9:45:47 PM EDT, Pete Hardie <pete.hardie@gmail.com> wrote:<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">I'm not that sour on them - they did fight a helluva fight against SCO. But their management seems unable to make headway against the 'make the quarter numbers" tide</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 9:30 PM Jim Kinney <<a href="mailto:jim.kinney@gmail.com">jim.kinney@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="text-align:left;direction:ltr"><div>Agreed. IBM kills everything they touch</div><div><br></div><div>On Sun, 2018-10-28 at 19:30 -0400, Pete Hardie via Ale wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small">Crap. There goes the neighborhood.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:small"><br></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 7:22 PM DJ-Pfulio via Ale <<a href="mailto:ale@ale.org" target="_blank">ale@ale.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote type="cite" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:2px #729fcf solid;padding-left:1ex">IBM is buying Redhat!<br>
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<a href="https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-acquire-red-hat-completely-changing-cloud-landscape-and-becoming-world%E2%80%99s-1-hybrid-cloud-provider" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ibm-acquire-red-hat-completely-changing-cloud-landscape-and-becoming-world%E2%80%99s-1-hybrid-cloud-provider</a><br>
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RHT is currently $116.68/sh.<br>
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"IBM (NYSE:IBM) and Red Hat (NYSE:RHT), the world’s leading provider of<br>
open source cloud software, announced today that the companies have<br>
reached a definitive agreement under which IBM will acquire all of the<br>
issued and outstanding common shares of Red Hat for $190.00 per share in<br>
cash, representing a total enterprise value of approximately $34 billion."<br>
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