Roy Schestowitz wrote:
> Software Notebook: Microsoft in buying mood
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> Spending spree takes aim at smaller companies
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> | Microsoft Chief Executive Steve Ballmer was quick to reply when recently
> | asked why the company wasn't pursuing acquisitions more aggressively.
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> | "We are buying more companies than we have ever bought," Ballmer said
> | in response to the question at Microsoft Corp.'s annual meeting with
> | financial analysts.
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> http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/281937_software21.html
It actually looks like there might be some method to the madness.
Microsoft is trynig to find 3rd rate competitors to companise and
products produced for Linux and Unix. Especially companies who may
have "ported" technology from Linux or Unix to Windows.
Make certain records dissappear before the aquisition, and you can
receive stolen goods without "knowing" they are stolen.
IBM tried that about 25 years ago with a little company called
"Micro-soft". They wanted Unix, Micro-soft had Xenix, and as long as
they didn't explicitly ask for it, they were isolated. What they got
instead was a third-rate knock-off of CP/M which had been ported to
Z-80 memnonics and published in a magazine, then ported to 8086
memnonics. It became known as PC-DOS or MS-DOS.
That worked out really well for IBM, didn't it?
:-D
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