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IBM to acquire Red Hat
In recent years, the traditional IT companies have force in the open source world, following the $ 6.5 billion acquisition of Salesforce MuleSoft, Microsoft acquired for $ 7.5 billion GitHub, July 9 IBM for $ 34 billion all-cash transaction for Red Hat acquisition, after the acquisition of IBM Red Hat will serve as a separate business unit to operate. The acquisition is the largest ever IBM deals, is the third largest in the history of the US technology industry M & A transactions.
As recent developments in IBM's century-old IT session was not clear, since 2012, its revenue has been in a downward trend. IBM subsequently increased investment in cloud computing industry in 2013 to more than $ 2 billion acquisition of Softlayer, for $ 34 billion now completed the acquisition of Red Hat's.
Red Hat is one of the pioneers of open source software, commercial, totally more than 60 consecutive quarters of revenue growth performance led the way in the field of open source, open source is one of the few areas to maintain sustained profitability and cash flow of the business. For this acquisition, IBM said it would make it the leading multiple and hybrid cloud market, to break the pattern, redefining enterprise cloud market.
Since 2013, 25% IBM cloud of total revenue, but for IBM wants to take territory computing market is not an easy task in the cloud, the face of Amazon, Microsoft, Google and Alibaba rival, IBM market share is not much.
Some people think that Red Hat is the savior of IBM, IBM also suggested that just want to gain another victory in the cloud, there are people that Red Hat IBM acquisition was a mistake, as for the future of IBM and Red Hat how could, perhaps to wait for time to prove.