____/ [H]omer on Thursday 18 October 2007 23:43 : \____
> Microsoft plans smaller deals, 'independent' path (Reuters)
>
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> | Microsoft Corp Chief Executive Steve Ballmer said on Thursday
> | the company aims to pursue an independent path, focusing on up to
> | 20 smaller acquisitions of $50 million to $1 billion each annually
> | rather than mega-deals.
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> http://biz.yahoo.com/rb/071018/microsoft_acquisitions.html?.v=1
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> Rather than wasting their customers' money assimilating the whole
> industry, shouldn't Microsoft be using it to actually /create/ software,
> instead of extinguishing everyone else's? This isn't software
> development, it's just corporate expansionism. It certainly isn't
> "innovation".
When you create software, you need this software to compete against other
software. When you acquire software, you can steal revenue and eliminate the
rival at the same time. That's the basis for some antitrust provisions. The
legal system no longer minds the rules as long as a friend of a friend of a
friend makes some dough through abuse of the broken system.
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