On Sun, Oct 28, 2018 at 2:17 PM, Antonio Trande <anto.trande@xxxxxxxxx> 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. -- Chris Murphy _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to devel-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 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@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
