Microsoft to Buy Rational and/or Borland?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday December 12, 2002 @02:58AM from the still-upset-over-turbo-prologs-market-dominance dept.

oblivious writes "I got this in e-mail this evening: According to a Reuters report that crossed the wires late today, the speculation is that Microsoft will make bids to buy both Rational and Borland. Shares of both Rational and Borland are up on the news, and so far both IBM and Microsoft have no comment on this report." We recently ran a story about IBMs planned purchase of Rational. Chris didn't make clear in here - it's not that Microsoft might buy both, but that Borland might be a likely target, if a bid to buy Rational out from under IBM fails, which it is likely too. Rational and IBM have signed the substantive portion of the agreement already, so any sort of counter bid would have some fun legal consequences for all involved.

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shit by kin_korn_karn · 2002-12-12 03:03 · Score: 0, Troll

well, there goes the only two companies left that support non-MS technologies in the corporate world. (to a multi-national open source is a joke, don't go there).

If you want to keep your high-paying tech job, get a jar of vaseline, because microsoft is preparing to fuck you long and hard deep into the night. Unless you're female, in which case you might not need the vaseline.