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Kiss of death, "IBM to acquire Red Hat in deal valued at $34 billion"

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the borg

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Oct 29, 2018, 4:39:04 AM10/29/18
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IBM is acquiring Red Hat, a major distributor of open-source
software and technology, in a deal valued around $34 billion,
the companies announced on Sunday.

According to a joint statement, IBM will pay cash to buy all
shares in Red Hat at $190 each. Shares in Red Hat closed at
$116.68 on Friday before the deal was announced.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/10/28/ibm-to-acquire-red-hat-in-deal-
valued-at-34-billion.html

Nomen Nescio

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Oct 29, 2018, 9:36:14 AM10/29/18
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the borg explained :
Dang! Wish I had some insider information about this purchase.

Jasen Betts

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Oct 29, 2018, 4:01:06 PM10/29/18
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You're that desperate for accomodation?

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When I tried casting out nines I made a hash of it.

F. Russell

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Feb 27, 2019, 12:02:25 PM2/27/19
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On Tue, 26 Feb 2019 22:00:11 -0800, tom vomited this verbiage that I
considered to be worthy of my attention for one of a variety of possible
reasons:

>>
> Maybe they will fire Poettering and finally put systemd, PulseAudio,
> and Dbus in the bin.
>

With all the distro maintainers lining up to kiss Poettering's
ass, it's not very likely.


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