It all sounds good. I believe this acquisition will benefit IBM, Red Hat, and all Linux and open-source users. But, beginning today, we'll start seeing if the merger can live up to its promise. Photos: From the first PCs to the ThinkPad – classic IBM machines ...
In connection with the proposed merger, Red Hat, Inc. (the “Company”) intends to file relevant materials with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”), including a preliminary proxy statement on Schedule 14A. Following the filing of the definitive proxy statement with the SEC, the...
IBM And Red Hat Merger The strange part of the Red Hat announcement was that it sets a precedent that is not great. Both Red Hat, and IBM its parent, are very large, sophisticated companies. There is little chance they did not foresee community outcry over an abrupt change of direction l...
"I don't have a death wish for US$34 billion," Rometty quipped at a Q&A session on stage with Red Hat CEO & president Jim Whitehurst. "I'm not buying them to destroy them. It's a win-win [for us and our clients], as more innovation can come out of it [this merger].” On ...
“Red Hat plus IBM could be at the forefront of hybrid cloud for large enterprises,” said Patrick Moorhead, president and principal analyst at Moor Insights & Strategy. “IBM clients can come to the new combined company as a one-stop shop for hybrid cloud. To work best, IBM needs to in...
Goldman Sachs, J.P. Morgan and Lazard advisedIBMon theRed Hatdeal. Morgan Stanley and Guggenheim advised Red Hat. The acquisition is by far IBM’s largest deal ever, and the third-biggest in the history of U.S. tech. Excluding the AOL-Time Warner merger, the only larger deals were the...
Jim Whitehurst, president, IBM “After working with him closely for more than a decade, I can confidently say that Paul was the natural choice to lead Red Hat. Having been the driving force behind Red Hat’s product strategy for nearly two decades, he’s been intimately involved in se...
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In dollar terms, the IBM-Red Hat deal dwarves theCloudera-Hortonworks merger, which now goes by the handle ClouderaWorks and was the last biggest shakeup in software. But there are similarities in underlying motive, withcloud-nativeplatform enhancements for data handling being on...
IBM dobândește, în sensul articolului 3 alineatul (1) litera (b) din Regulamentul privind concentrările economice, controlul unic asupra întregii întreprinderiRed Hat. IBM acquires within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of the Merger Regulation sole control of the whole ...