- Yet another look at what is perhaps the biggest deal in the history of business, Microsoft buying Yahoo.
- I compare it to Symantec’s buying out all its competitors way back when.
- Also, is News Corp interested? Seems so.
- Finally, look for a revitalized Industry Standard, a magazine that only appears during a boom.
” Beating Microsoft-Yahoo to Death ”
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The senior management of Microsoft are taking a powder. Ballmer will be pushed out in a year or so because he doesn’t have the good manners to leave with the others. What’s going on here is pretty typical of a successful company (yes they are still the biggest software company on the planet) – and that is ego.
Ballmer, Gates, and the others are making stupendous mistake of taking their assets, and then some, to buy an aligned but declining competitor. They need to prove something, and quite frankly, it’s all about them – especially Ballmer. This isn’t about Google, or Yahoo, or open source, or anything else except to satisfy Steve Ballmer’s ego to be the biggest software bully on the block again.
Unfortunately, if this happens then this will wipe out the next level of management at Microsoft/Yahoo trying to put all this together. They’ll have no money or resources to actually grow in new directions and will lose all their talent to companies that are growing. Sad and adolescent.
Yahoo’s got some good stuff, particularly the financial content. MSN, not so much. Both are turds, frankly. This is like Ford and Chrysler teaming up to fend of Toyota. Like Ford and Chrysler, Yahoo and MSN don’t really produce stuff that the masses want.
What’s cool about this business is some bright kid who may be in high school right now will start something that will do to Google what it has done to Yahoo.
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I just don’t buy in to the “biggest business deal ever” logic. Five years ago? Yes. Today? No. The market moves that fast.