Alibaba to separate into six parts. Take that HP and IBM, with your puny two-way splits

Chinese e-commerce giant Alibaba has decided to break itself into six smaller entities – one of which will include its hyperscale public cloud. A Tuesday filing [PDF] revealed "a new organizational and governance structure to empower all our businesses to become more agile, enhance decision making, enable faster responses to …

[Paul Herber]

I've been waiting to use the word 'sexfurcation' for a long time.

[Bartholomew]

I learned something new today, that always makes me happy! But I do feel stupid. I actually had to lookup "bifurcation" to confirm what it meant and then stick "sixth" into an English to Latin translator (sixth->sextus). I could not find it listed in any online dictionaries (plugged "sexfurcation define" into a search engine), but it is a totally legitimate and 100% valid English word, just hardly ever used.

bifurcation - the division of something into two branches or parts

trifurcation -to divide or fork into three branches or parts

quadfurcation - forking or division into four branches or parts

pentfurcation - forking or division into five branches or parts

[Kev99]

Interesting. Their splitting up implies the controlling board is so anal retentive that no one can do anything.

[Ashto5]

Divide and conquer

Separates in to many headed hydra

There will be little chance to compete with it