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Major Role Of A Lawyer in Mergers and Acquisitions Transactions
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U.S. computer maker #DellTechnologies Inc and business software provider #VMware Inc have decided to explore options that could include a potential merger of the two companies. The move, which may not result in any deal, comes as Dell, the world’s largest privately held technology company, seeks new avenues for growth following its debt-laden acquisition of data storage provider #EMC Corp for $67bn in 2016.

VMware plans to announce that it will form a special committee of board directors to consider a combination with #Dell. VMware is 80%-owned by Dell, so the special committee is aimed at making any combination subject to approval by disinterested directors who will safeguard the interests of VMware minority shareholders.


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Exclusive: Dell, VMware decide to explore options including merger - sources
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vmware-m-a-dell-tech-exclusive/exclusive-dell-vmware-decide-to-explore-options-including-merger-sources-idUSKBN1FM085

The DOJ Antitrust Division's new consent decree language enhances the DOJ's leverage over parties who have settled merger and non-merger civil antitrust investigations #antitrust #mergers

#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/

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