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Microsoft Offered $40 a Share For Yahoo
fistfullast33l writes "Bloomberg is reporting that a recently unsealed court case by shareholders against Yahoo reveals that Microsoft offered $40 a share for the Internet search company in January 2007 and Yahoo turned it down. We've extensively discussed Microsoft's bid for Yahoo earlier this year for $33 a share, which was rebuffed. Investor Carl Icahn has launched a proxy fight against Yahoo over the spurning of the Microsoft deal." CWmike notes Computerworld's coverage of the revelations: "The complaint places much of the blame on [Yahoo CEO Jerry] Yang, describing him as someone with a 'well-known' antipathy toward Microsoft who acted out of a personal interest to keep Yahoo independent. Something wrong with that? Oh, yeah... public company."
with the rate of growth of Redhat in the datacenter, I'd throw them up there with Google and Apple too.
The thing though with Red Hat (and Fedora) are losing distro marketshare to Ubuntu and other Debian-based distros. RPM and YUM are miles behind DEB and APT though RPM is improving. I don't think that Red Hat will suddenly go bankrupt, but I think that after the MS collapse it will be Canonical at number 1, Novell and Red Hat tied for number 2 and then Apple for number 3 (Apple cannot survive if it doesn't keep the "better underdog" spot) and then various other Linux businesses such as TurboLinux, Xandros, etc.
Taxation is legalized theft, no more, no less.