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Microsoft to Buy Nortel? You Don’t Say!
By Mark Evans | February 14, 2008
There’s speculation and then there’s out and out dreaming, which is what Alex Lewis must be doing on Network World when he talks about Microsoft buying Nortel.
“MS could purchase Nortel , disassemble and sell off the parts it doesn’t want. The acquisition would give MS a true end to end solution, like Cisco, but with a much larger installed base. Given Nortel’s stock price, MS could buy the core business, sell off the undesirable pieces and make this a very attractive acquisition. This wouldn’t have much consumer impact, but the SMB through Enterprise market could be profound.”
My take: Highly unlikely, especially since Microsoft is going to need lots of time to integrate Yahoo if the $45-billion hostile bid is successful.
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