[Am-info] Microsoft to buy IBM ?

[John Poltorak]

On Mon, Jun 03, 2002 at 11:54:49AM -0400, Eric M. Bennett wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:
> 
> >John Poltorak wrote:
> >>Following on from stories about Microsoft's cash mountain and 
> >>looking at the balance sheets of Microsoft and IBM it looks as 
> >>though Microsoft have net current assets of $44Bn and IBM only has 
> >>around $6Bn...
> >>
> >>Given that Bill Gates has long harboured ambitions of taking over 
> >>IBM, when does anyone expect such a move to be made?
> >
> >I think it's unlikely, beleive it or not because of antitrust 
> >issues.  I know, I know, with this administration???
> >
> 
> The EU could still kill it, like they killed the Honeywell deal.

Honeywell was a EU company, but I can't see how the EU would have any 
jurisdiction over two US companies... 

 
> -- 
> Eric Bennett / ericb@pobox.com / emb22@cornell.edu
> Cornell University, Chemistry & Chemical Biology


-- 
John