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   From: Sativa@gnutella.com   
      
   Ray Hughes  Wrote in message:r   
   > 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<<<