Comment by cmurf
7 years ago
"those in charge have basically given up"
Yes but which company's leadership has given up? If this is the ordinary acquisition model, where the buying company (IBM) leadership stays in charge, then I say it's Red Hat's leadership that's given up. If it's the 'buy a company to get an entirely new leadership team' then it means those in charge of IBM might actually understand their dire situation. But I have no idea if they have that awareness.
Unless the leadership happens to hold quite a lot of shares, their stance isn’t going to matter too much.
Your don't buy/hire a leadership team to tell them what to do (unless you happen to like to waste time and money).
This happened at Apple (NeXT took over). Somehow with Disney/Pixar too if I'm not mistaken.
No, but you can certainly buy a brand, a customer base, a bunch of product trademarks or even a patent portfolio.
What happened with Apple and NeXT is the exception, not the rule.