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IBM to Buy ISS for $1.3 Billion
gerald626 writes "IBM announced today that they have formed an agreement to purchase ISS for 1.3 billion dollars." From the article: " The all-cash transaction of about $28 per share is meant to bolster IBM's ability to deliver security services to corporations, the company said. ISS builds network protection products and services, including intrusion detection and monitoring tools. IBM said it intends to use ISS's expertise and software to provide more robust security-related services to its corporate customers."
What could they possibly do with a space station?
IBM bought the space station?
International Space Station?
If it takes effort to do, let someone else do it.
What does IBM want with the International Space Station?
I knew it, IBM will be the first corporation to exodous earth!
IBM buys the International Space Station? (followed by a brief period of shock :-) )
But what the heck, if it's only 1.3 billion right now you gotta strike.
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Anyone else read that and wonder what IBM would want with the International Space Station?
Of course, they could probably run it better than NASA these days...
'Sensible' is a curse word.
That's no moon... that's a BIG BLUE!
Nope... just doesn't work.
Good quote, too many chars. Seriously, the slashdot 120 char limit sucks!
I bet the spacestation is worth WAYYY more than $1.3Bil, and whatta view! $ Cha-Ching! $
They want to buy the International Space Station and then claim it's a wise business decision? What idiot in management thought that up? If there's anything that wise decision makers know, it's that remote sites are VERY COSTLY. I'll bet some suit wants to take his wife up to the ISS and recreate that scene from Moonraker, to live out a childhood fantasy or something. God, the business world is despicable.
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space is the best choice, that's why the military has spy satellites.
we could bundle all our ms cds, manuals and other crap into a big pile and drop it from orbit on redmond.
:-)
it's the only way to be sure!
Dude, this is the funniest shit I've seen on Slashdot since OMG Ponies!!! last April.
I'd like to say that I welcome my IBM typo bearing overlords.
Out of respect for the other 1,299,999,999 Slashdotters to make jokes about a space station, I will refrain from doing so.
Oh You POS
It's not a space station, it's too big to be a space station.
I was gunna make a joke about IBM buyin the International Space Station but uh... .. well I've been beaten to it... about 35 times over.
Nah, they're just trying to open up their talent pool for future outsourcing venues! I should probably start learning Vulcan now...
it will be the corporations that name everything: the IBM Stellar Sphere, the Microsoft Galaxy, Planet Starbucks.
That's a bargain. I'm pretty sure that the US alone has contributed more than 5 times that much to the International Space Station.
Why doesn't anything interesting happen when I have mod points?
I didn't know the International Space Station was for sale? ;)
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In Soviet Russia, Space Station buys you!
It is but a mir space station....
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Geez you stupid mods! I knew i was going to get modded down for the above post but i expected at least a minimum level of competence to be exercised in the process. Commenting about the ISS confusion and asking for clarification on the blurb is most certainly not offtopic, it's redundant! I even spelled it out for you in the subject! Get it right! _This_ post is offtopic. Or flamebait, your choice. Just stick to one of those two and you can't get it wrong.
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Right, so NOT the International Space Station then ... that would have been weird.
...that's a space station!
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