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I hope this definitively kills Micro$oft.
by ivan 19y ago
I hope this definitively kills Micro$oft.
- dawnerd 19y agoI very highly doubt that.
- kajecounterhack 19y agoYeah thats not exactly possible. I do wonder, however, what this effectively does to Yahoo's stock price.
- mixmax 19y agosee for yourself http://finance.google.com/finance?q=yahoo http://finance.google.com/finance?q=yahoo
- pg 19y agoWhat this stock price says to me is that investors are betting that this story, even if it's correct, is not the last word, and that Microsoft (or someone) will eventually get them.
- kajecounterhack 19y agoIs it possible though, that the stock prices went up as a sign of investor relief? I'm not sure all stockholders were too happy with the deal.
- aston 19y agoIf Yahoo! does reject the offer, their stock price should, were the market completely rational, fall a lot. Back to what it was before Microsoft made the offer in the first place. Yahoo's the same company it was two weeks ago; the stock was just worth more since MS was offering a premium.
- nostrademons 19y agoThe other possibility is that investors are not completely rational. Yahoo is the same company it was in November; the stock is just worth what it was then. It's the last 3 months that's been the aberration. ;-)
- ahold 19y agodoubts can be dangerous :)
- amichail 19y agoJust imagine all those Yahoo services ported to Silverlight. I think it would be very impressive actually.
- rms 19y agoIt's kind of scary to think that corporations existing today are likely to be around for hundreds of years. All hail our corporate overlords.
- davidw 19y agoI wouldn't count on it. Look how many of 1908's giants are still big today. A few, but most are dead and gone. This book talks about some of the reasons why: http://www.squeezedbooks.com/book/show/2/why-most-things-fail-evolution-extinction-and-economics http://www.squeezedbooks.com/book/show/2/why-most-things-fai...
- rms 19y agoOK. I doubt that Microsoft and Yahoo will be around in 2108. It seems inconceivable that Google could fall though, especially if Google.org's energy research pays off.
- davidw 19y agoHere's the paper: http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8282 http://links.jstor.org/sici?sici=0002-8282(199805)88%3A2%3C62%3ASASMAT%3E2.0.CO%3B2-8 Unfortunately it's not free. The stats cited in the book are that only 20% of the top 100 from 1915 were still there in 1995. Think about the technology landscape 100 years ago, and how much it's changed. I think there's every chance that Google will either not be around, or be radically smaller or different than it is now. It could be even larger, too. It's simply not possible to know. What is evident though, is that with time, companies grow and die. Bonus fact - this is one of the oldest companies in the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zildjian http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zildjian
- Tichy 19y agoWhy, by 2108 there will be superhuman machines and all... If Google is not the company who invents them, they will be toast.