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http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tm...=1&u=/nm/20020603/tc_nm/tech_ibm_hitachi_dc_1
So who is going to be first to buy a IBtachi?
So who is going to be first to buy a IBtachi?
Onomatopoeic said:If you REALLY want something to talk about, then there's a nice beefy rumour that's been circulating the financial world for a few days that Microsoft will buy WorldCom in a matter of weeks. A WorldCom acquisition would give Microsoft a big ass world-wide backbone to saturate with X-Box and Dot Net data.
i said:Please stop ... you're scaring me.
James said:I'd be surprised if Microsoft bought Worldcom, although MS does have a history of making some really stupid decisions...
There's nothing stopping Microsoft sallying forth into the mobile communications device arena (again). If they want to burn spectacular amounts of money, that's certainly the way to go. Manufacturers have had to stop the bloodbath of subsidised handset sales recently, so things have improved slightly for them, but it's not what you'd call a licence to print money. If Microsoft wants to try to convince Nokia, Ericsson et al to buy its OS, more power to it.Onomatopoeic said:http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/25700.html
I talked about this in some depth before, but I'll add : Worldcom does not have "the best Internet backbone" unless your criteria include high latency, lots of packet loss, and you're not actually interested in accessing it from outside the US or Europe. Worldcom has spent years painfully trying to get rid of residential customers and get into the business space, whereas the Xbox idea assumes that they would need to retool again to get back into the home business - while still keeping the backbone optimised for business usage as well. And above all, why would you buy a telco with all sorts of debt and customers to service when you can buy the capacity you need from telcos for less than cost?