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   From: rhughes@rhughes-XPS-9320.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me   
      
   Sativa GNutella  writes:   
      
   > Will Mark Shuttleworth sell to Microsoft?   
   > Canonical?s Ubuntu Linux is not just the most popular Linux   
   >  distribution in Microsoft Azure. It is the most popular Linux   
   >  distribution across all clouds, and is the most popular Linux   
   >  distribution in use today. This is some massive success and the   
   >  growth of Ubuntu and Canonical puts the company at the forefront   
   >  of being an interesting acquisition target by companies like   
   >  Microsoft.   
   >   
   > My estimates of an acquisition price of between $770 million and   
   >  $3.3 billion are based on the acquisitions of GitHub and   
   >  LinkedIn. Microsoft acquired LinkedIn at $26 billion which is   
   >  roughly 7.2x it?s annual revenue at the time. And, Microsoft   
   >  acquired GitHub at $7.5 billion which is roughly 30x it?s annual   
   >  revenue at the time. Without knowing more about the finances of   
   >  Canonical, its seems to reason the acquisition price will be   
   >  somewhere in the realm of these numbers.   
   >>> some snipping<<<<   
      
   I think Google would appose an MS takeover of Unbuntu.   
   It would then probably buy if for itself and then murder it.   
   Google OS could then be all over the world.   
      
   But MS buying Canonical would get to say a few top 500   
   Super computers were at last running an MS OS.   
      
   RayH. (Just thinking aloud.)   
      
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