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[News] History's Lesson: Acquire to Squash Threat

Intuit: Giant Killer

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| Battling Microsoft has been the kiss of death for many software
| firms. Intuit is the perennial exception. A decade ago antitrust
| regulators quashed Microsoft's takeover bid for then tiny rival
| Intuit. Then in 2000 the Redmond giant spent $1.1 billion to
| acquire accounting software shop Great Plains. In 2005 it
| launched an accounting software directly targeting Intuit's
| customers.
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http://www.forbes.com/2006/12/21/best-managed-software-biz-cz_07platinum_cs_1221intuit.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/yg9xxa

What? No innovation? Just acquisition? Just like Oracle? Just what they
intend to do with Novell?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_companies_acquired_by_Microsoft_Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_fictitious_company_names_used_by_Microsoft

Couldn't find the SCO sockpuppet in the latter...

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