Microsoft Should Acquire SAP, Not Yahoo 188
Reservoir Hill writes "Randall Stross has an insightful article in the NY Times that says that if Microsoft thinks this is the right time to try a major acquisition on a scale it has never tried before, it should pursue not Yahoo but SAP, another major player in business software, thus merging Microsoft's strength with that of another. This is more likely to produce a happy outcome than yoking two ailing businesses, Yahoo's and Microsoft's own online offerings, and hoping for a miracle. Stross points to Oracle as a company whose acquisition strategy has picked up key products and customers while avoiding venturing too far from its core business, or overpaying. Stross recommends that Microsoft acquire SAP and leave it alone as an autonomous division — which would avoid a culture-clash integration fiasco. Besides, large enterprise customers are arguably the best customers a software company can have. A few dozen well-paying Fortune 500 customers may actually be more valuable than tens of millions of Web e-mail 'customers' who pay nothing for the service and whose attention is not highly valued by online advertisers."
Anyone who buys Microsoft is a big enough SAP (Score:4, Funny)
Buggy, half finished software == perfect fit (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Wrong POV. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No they should acquire.... (Score:3, Funny)
Aquiring IBM would just make them brag about how they had something better in the pipeline whenever anyone released anything.
Should acquire Yahoo, SAP, Chrysler AND Best Buy (Score:5, Funny)
Re:No, whinney is right on the point and so is MS (Score:2, Funny)
Re:Stupid Idea (Score:3, Funny)
If I could tag this (Score:3, Funny)
Re:No, whinney is right on the point and so is MS (Score:2, Funny)
Hey, that really DOES sound like Ruby on Rails