#RedHat announced (Jan 30) that it is acquiring privately held container Linux and #Kubernetes vendor #CoreOS, in a deal valued at $250m. CoreOS was founded in 2013 and had raised a total of $48m in funding. Both Red Hat and CoreOS are active contributors to the open-source Kubernetes container orchestration platform first created by Google, and Red Hat's OpenShift platform and CoreOS’ Tectonic platform were in competition with each other. CoreOS also has its own Linux distribution that was originally known as CoreOS Linux and was rebranded as Container Linux in December 2016.

Red Hat now sees CoreOS' products as being complementary with its own, stating 'CoreOS can further extend Red Hat’s leadership and influence in the Kubernetes upstream community and also bring new enhancements to Red Hat OpenShift around automated operations and management.'


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Red Hat Buys CoreOS to Extend Influence in Kubernetes Community
http://www.eweek.com/cloud/red-hat-buys-coreos-to-extend-influence-in-kubernetes-community

At $250m, #RedHat paid a lofty premium for a company whose revenue was negligible. Beyond some revenue, what Red Hat really got was a team whose open source mindset is a near-perfect pattern match for Red Hat, not to mention a company that has been doing some of the more interesting tooling around #Kubernetes. All of which is worth much more than $250m for Red Hat.

Red Hat currently generates more than $2bn annually in revenues, but the key to its future is to add a few billion through things like Ansible (automation) and, in particular, Kubernetes (read: OpenShift). Red Hat executives have regularly touted the benefits of OpenShift to its business, leading to larger deals that pull along other products (like Red Hat Enterprise Linux).


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Why Red Hat's $250M acquisition of #CoreOS is cheap compared to failing in containers
https://www.techrepublic.com/article/why-red-hats-250m-acquisition-of-coreos-is-cheap-compared-to-failing-in-containers/

Whose heading to the @ICSC #DealMaking event in the Windy City next month?Would love to see you there http://bit.ly/2fMkKN9 #RoyalService

Whose heading to the @ICSC #DealMaking event in the Windy City next month?Would love to see you there http://bit.ly/2x5gdJn #RoyalService

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#Trump’s Mentality for #Dealmaking
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… All of this confirms what lies in the mentality of Trump that is looking for dealmaking. In return for the US protection of the Gulf States from the Iranian threat, the Gulf States will have to pay the cost of such protection, i.e. to put its money more broadly at the disposal of #America in order to maintain their chairs of governance. America is treating these rulers as juveniles. There are many evidences that prove the Mafia mentality that the Trump administration have, and President Trump is not the only one in the US that adopts an international royalties approach, the US Congress adopted #JUSTA law in 2016 under the Obama administration, which as result it became possible to withhold funds of Saudi Arabia and other Gulf States because of " #terrorist " acts.

America is experiencing a real economic crisis that forced it to reduce its general budget, and with its huge debts, and the rise of #China economically, they are always looking for big solutions, as the Bush Jr #administration considered the economic solution to be the occupation of Iraq and to invest its oil, but the resistance in Iraq prevented him from this, he was forced to spend $3 trillion for the #Iraq disaster. #Obama tried to hit the British tax havens to attract big money back from remote islands to America, then the JUSTA law followed to make money out of tax and penalise for "terrorism", and now Trump wants the world’s wealthy countries to pay international royalties to receive protection as a way to resolve the dilemma of the #US_economy, Trump ventured with his promise to solve the US debt (20 trillion dollars) in eight years!

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From a seller's perspective, Chinese #dealmaking is placing a larger focus on #deal certainty and price. #Bloomberg: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2017-09-26/what-chinese-regulations-mean-for-deal-making-video #MnA #PEDeals #PrivateEquity #Mergers #Acquisitions #ChineseRegulations #Dealmaking

#Book #attempts to #demystify #Trump's #dealmaking #policies #socialnews

New Delhi, June 10 (IANS) There has been a substantial shift in the bilateral, regional and multilateral foreign trade policy of the United States post Trump taking over as the President. Author Amiya Chandra’s latest book “Indian Foreign Trade: Trumped…

Insights on recent #dealmaking developments, proposed regulations and its impact on #MnA to be discussed on #ACG's Webinar with our own +Alvarez & Marsal #Taxand Managing Director Dan Rahill and #SmithAmundsenLLC. https://www.acg.org/events/webinar-developments-dealmaking-and-proposed-regulation-and-impact-ma +Stephanie DeYoung +Mira Ilieva Leonard #TaxInsights #AMTaxand #Mergers #Acquisitions #PrivateEquity #SmithAmundsen #ACGGlobal #AlvarezandMarsal

Learn more about A&M Taxand: https://www.alvarezandmarsal.com/expertise/tax

#Trump may be the #dealmaking president in more ways than one. U.S. #mergerandacquisition transactions totalled $1.2tn since President Trump was elected, according to Thomson Reuters data. That's from nearly 12,700 deals stretching from Nov. 6, 2016 to Nov. 2, 2017. In terms of dollar amount and number of transactions, that is the most for the first year of all modern presidents.

While the dollar amount was down from the previous year, the number of deals rose overall. Volume has increased steadily since 2011. Thirteen of the deals in the past year were over $10bn, also the most of a modern president's first year since election. There were 10 such deals in President Obama's first year and 8 under George W. Bush.


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Trump era ushered in wave of M&A on hope for deregulation and tax reform
https://www.cnbc.com/2017/11/06/trump-era-ushered-in-wave-of-ma-on-hope-for-deregulation-and-tax-reform.html