IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B

Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by GuiA on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @11:32AM (#20392771)

Are we talking about financial success, or making quality products? I get that shareholders care about the former, but as hackers we should care about the latter.

Pixar movies have become crappy sequels made to sell toys. Instagram has become an ad infested product that tries to have every feature, resulting in a confused mess. Exxon/Mobil is one of the worst things that could have happened to the planet.

eBay/PayPal is a good one that made product sense.

I’m not big enough of a Marvel fan to judge that one.

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Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by iamnotacrook on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:07PM (#20393238)

"Pixar movies have become crappy sequels made to sell toys."

Not really. Most of what they do isn't sequels, and the ones they do are great. I saw Toy Story in the cinema and loved it. My daughter just saw Toy Story 4 in the cinema and loved it. So...financially successful, and people love the movies - not sure how this is a good example, to be honest (unless the metric is "I don't like it", of course...).

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