If you are Microsoft's CEO.....
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Kim0618 wrote:
Imagine you are Microsoft's CEO, which kind of software company will you consider to acquire ?
The one that makes software that heals headaches like Tylenol. Farhan Noor Qureshi if (this == this) thow this;
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Kim0618 wrote:
Imagine you are Microsoft's CEO, which kind of software company will you consider to acquire ?
The one that makes software that heals headaches like Tylenol. Farhan Noor Qureshi if (this == this) thow this;
Farhan Noor Qureshi wrote:
The one that makes software that heals headaches like Tylenol.
IMO all software's currently at this stage, tylenol's only effective against my mildest headaches, for anything else it just stands in the way of taking a useful drug for the next 4hrs.
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Kim0618 wrote:
which kind of software company will you consider to acquire ?
You planing on starting a company to get bought out? :-D Jeremy Falcon
Jeremy Falcon wrote:
You planing on starting a company to get bought out?
That's a good business idea I'd say :-) Regards, Nish
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Hi, Imagine you are Microsoft's CEO, which kind of software company will you consider to acquire ? And what factors will your decision be based on ?
Kim0618 wrote:
which kind of software company will you consider to acquire ?
Linux. ;P Marc XPressTier
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Kim0618 wrote:
which kind of software company will you consider to acquire ?
Linux. ;P Marc XPressTier
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People are just notoriously impossible. --DavidCrow
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Hi, Imagine you are Microsoft's CEO, which kind of software company will you consider to acquire ? And what factors will your decision be based on ?
Kim0618 wrote:
Imagine you are Microsoft's CEO, which kind of software company will you consider to acquire ?
Guinness.
Kim0618 wrote:
And what factors will your decision be based on ?
Taste.
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Hi, Imagine you are Microsoft's CEO, which kind of software company will you consider to acquire ? And what factors will your decision be based on ?
Kim0618 wrote:
Imagine you are Microsoft's CEO, which kind of software company will you consider to acquire ? And what factors will your decision be based on ?
I don't buy any companies. I start by splitting Microsoft into lots of smaller companies and sack all the deadwood middle layer management and the tools that decided to wait so long before releasing VS2005 SP1. Michael CP Blog [^] Development Blog [^]
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Hi, Imagine you are Microsoft's CEO, which kind of software company will you consider to acquire ? And what factors will your decision be based on ?
So why is this getting voted down? Anyway. Here's my $.02. Big companies buy little companies to: Play catchup if they missed a market. As in Microsoft buying Hotmail. To Acquire proprietary (as in Patented) technology. or, to add features to an upcomming product release (as in: what new features could we add for the next version... hey wait, let's buy this company with cool add-ons for Office) Many companies get funded to be come experts in emerging technologies, most of them don't make it but a few do and they get bought. The venture capitalists hope they make enough on the winners to outweight losses on the losers. There are other reasons but I think these are the main ones. David -- modified at 16:14 Wednesday 19th July, 2006
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So why is this getting voted down? Anyway. Here's my $.02. Big companies buy little companies to: Play catchup if they missed a market. As in Microsoft buying Hotmail. To Acquire proprietary (as in Patented) technology. or, to add features to an upcomming product release (as in: what new features could we add for the next version... hey wait, let's buy this company with cool add-ons for Office) Many companies get funded to be come experts in emerging technologies, most of them don't make it but a few do and they get bought. The venture capitalists hope they make enough on the winners to outweight losses on the losers. There are other reasons but I think these are the main ones. David -- modified at 16:14 Wednesday 19th July, 2006
I don't know... I remember that back in the 90s the small firm that developed ODBC got forcefully bought by MS (well, under threat of competition - sell it or we'll build a competing product) and it stopped being invested in as it really competed with Ole DB at the time and others. It enabled the same code to work against Oracle, etc... so this might also be a reason MS purchases. I could be wrong though... [edit] Of course they might have continued investing in ODBC, that was a while ago, but I think it had major potential at the time to achieve some true innovation in the data market. [/edit] This statement is false. -- modified at 16:22 Wednesday 19th July, 2006
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I don't know... I remember that back in the 90s the small firm that developed ODBC got forcefully bought by MS (well, under threat of competition - sell it or we'll build a competing product) and it stopped being invested in as it really competed with Ole DB at the time and others. It enabled the same code to work against Oracle, etc... so this might also be a reason MS purchases. I could be wrong though... [edit] Of course they might have continued investing in ODBC, that was a while ago, but I think it had major potential at the time to achieve some true innovation in the data market. [/edit] This statement is false. -- modified at 16:22 Wednesday 19th July, 2006
Yes, but that's totally expected. Once a company decides they are interested, the line up options including internal development and use them to keep the asking price down. No different than you looking at a house and telling the real estate agent "yeah, we like your house, but there's one down the street closer to the school we like too, and it's $50,000 cheaper." Same goes for buying cars, or sending your kids to school. Guys at these companies are pros, and they play hardball when it gets to the money part. David
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Hi, Imagine you are Microsoft's CEO, which kind of software company will you consider to acquire ? And what factors will your decision be based on ?
Certainly I should not acquire, but sell some of divisions to private companies... (I think here at all stuff which make the object of various monopolistic attacks..) :cool: