Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 27th Aug 2007 15:38 UTC, submitted by shykid
Taiwan's leading computer seller Acer is to take over US PC maker Gateway in a USD 710m deal. The takeover will create the world's third largest producer of personal computers, with shipments of more than 20 million PCs and sales of USD 15bn. The deal may also see Acer try to block Chinese rival Lenovo from buying Packard Bell's operations in Europe.
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RE: Gateway as been undervalued for sometime
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RE[2]: Gateway as been undervalued for sometime
by puddleglum on Tue 28th Aug 2007 18:32
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Gateway had a good run at it's start but once they sold there own store and bought eMachine they seem to have had a sour note in the investment market.
Gateway as some interesting patent so did eMachine , they have some patented technology on distribution system that are quite impressive.
I always thought that once they where passed the below 1 billion mark they where marked for an acquisition , I was hoping that one of the big GNU/Linux player would have bought them for the access to hardware and create a direct hardware distribution channel like Apple as.
They where the first to ship computer's with an PCI-E expansion slot on there motherboard even do they had good onboard AGP graphic on the motherboard. Witch was a rarity about two , three years ago on lower end system.
I just hope that the end result will be that they keep Acer cool design but integrate Gateway hardware stability on the low end Acer.