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Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by johannes1234321 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @12:58PM (#20393926)
Nope they couldn't. Apple acquiring NeXT was to acquire Steve Jobs and making NeXT the foundation of the company.

IBM acquiring RedHat is a way to play in the cloud field, not to change the complete IBM Organisation, which is huge.

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Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by Xixi on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @01:37PM (#20394461)
I'm not entirely convinced Apple really wanted Steve Jobs back. They really needed an operating system after the failure of Copland though.

If IBM shareholders think that the future of IBM is the cloud, and that RedHat is the cloud at IBM, I would not be entirely surprised for Jim Whitehurst to replace Ginni Rometty a couple years down the road... 100% speculation from very very far away (I don't pay for anything from either IBM or RedHat).

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Re:IBM Closes Acquisition of Red Hat for $34B by hnthrowaway919 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @06:26PM (#20397340)
Interesting theory. Based on history and company performance (I don't have sources for this) Rometty's run as CEO has outlasted most expectations. This is definitely an interesting thought
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