Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 4th May 2008 07:19 UTC, submitted by sonic2000gr
Earlier this year, Microsoft offered to purchase search engine company Yahoo, however, the board of directors of Yahoo shot the offer down beause it 'massively' undervalued the company. This ignited an acquisition dance that took a few months, and rumours were abound as to what either of the two would do next.
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On the one hand, perhaps if Microsoft had pursued the acquisition (and who can say right now it won't happen at a later date at a lower price after the market reacts, and depending on future performance taken into account?) I might have been lucky enough to be first given a retention bonus (1.5 billion total, don't know how it'd be distributed) and then get laid off and get several months salary. However, I also wonder what Microsoft would do both in terms of cultural changes as well as technology changes: I only use Windows XP on my laptop at work as (sometimes) a terminal to my two Linux development boxes that are used on the project I'm part of that's open source-based. Without going into too much detail, simply put, SQL Server doesn't even come close to what product I'm working on will do...
It'd suck to be stuck changing technology just for the sake of being all some internal technology, and perhaps Microsoft has learned from the past that it isn't always wise to change. However, if Microsoft does eventually buy Yahoo! they'll find themselves in the odd predicament of being a paying customer of quite a few seats of Red Hat Enterprise Linux