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Comment Re:Sounds like they're going to sell and get gutte (Score 1) 115

This is step 1 in trying to sell their flailing business. They obviously don't expect any more growth or they'd stick with running their own servers. Buyers want to know they can carve up the company easily, so migrating to a public cloud gives them some assurances this is possible. They're certainly hoping to get scooped up on their disintegrating brand awareness before there's no value left.

My company tried to buy them out. They responded:

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Thank you for your interest in acquiring Stack Overflow. Unfortunately, your proposal has been closed for the following reasons:

  • Too Broad: Your offer attempts to encompass infrastructure, talent, branding, and existential philosophy in a single transaction. Please narrow the scope to a specific, answerable acquisition.
  • Duplicate: This is a duplicate of several prior offers we've already declined. Please consult [closed: Why hasn't Stack Overflow sold out yet?].
  • Opinion-Based: Statements such as “We think we’d be a good fit culturally” are inherently subjective and not suitable for this kind of transaction.
  • Needs Reproducible Example: You’ve failed to provide a line-item financial breakdown, term sheet, or any working prototype of post-acquisition community support. We require a MCVE.
  • Unclear What You’re Asking: “Let’s talk synergies” is not a clear action item.
  • Off-Topic: We do not currently accept offers relating to the acquisition of community-driven Q&A platforms. This belongs on corporate-takeovers.meta.stackexchange.com.
  • Contains AI-generated Content: While parts of your proposal were cleverly worded, we detected traces of ChatGPT hallucination. Please edit the offer to reflect your own due diligence.

If you believe this closure was in error, feel free to [edit] your offer to meet community standards and flag for moderator review.

With regards,
Stack Overflow, Inc.
“Not every problem belongs here.”

Comment Re:Well... (Score 2) 21

But privacy and data protection has become one of the main selling points for Apple in the last decade or so. They tried to bridge the gap with their "Privat Cloud Compute" approach, but this is so complex and hard to understand (and to implement) that nobody will really care, they will just see "all my data will be processed in the Cloud just as Google does it" and that's it.

From the summary, it seems Apple is asking them to train a model that will run on Apple's private servers, thus maintaining privacy.

Comment Re:Do the Japanese need a lesson in biology? (Score 1) 85

The number of times that my wife has had to submit a copy of her marriage certificate to confirm her original name even though we've been married for 11 years baffles me. It made some sense in the first year or two, but she still has to do it a couple of times a year for seemingly random things. I encouraged her to keep her original name when we were planning the wedding, but she insisted on the name change.

Comment Re:Despite (Score 1) 277

It depends on what they've purchased. Microsoft's basic licenses haven't gone up by that much in five years. The top tier E5 license was $57 per month in 2020, and today it's $54.75 (albeit without Teams, which costs $8 per month with a phone number attached). European prices are probably a bit different, but the price changes in percentages won't be notably different. Even add-ons like Entra Suite or Intune Suite won't add 72%. It's more likely that they have Azure VMs or other services, and that's where the majority of the cost increase came from. If they're not planning on bringing that on-prem, they'll see some savings, but it may not be all that much.

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