Reply to post: But *Why* did they buy them?

Official: IBM to gobble Red Hat for $34bn – yes, the enterprise Linux biz

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But *Why* did they buy them?

I'm still trying to figure out "why" they bought Red hat.

The only thing my not insignificant google trawling can find me is that Red Hat sell to the likes of Microsoft and google - now, that *is* interesting. IBM seem to be saying that they can't compete directly but they will sell upwards to their overlords - no ?

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