IBM Bids To Acquire Red Hat To Boost Hybrid Cloud Division; We See Synergies From the Deal
On Oct. 28, IBM announced it will acquire Red Hat for $190 per share in cash, at an enterprise value of $34 billion. We are not surprised at the deal’s target given IBM’s 20-year partnership history with Red Hat and ongoing collaboration between IBM Private Cloud and Red Hat’s OpenShift container management platform. We believe IBM's price is a good deal for Red Hat shareholders, compared with our $145 fair value estimate for Red Hat prior to the announcement and the high premium being paid for ...Red Hat is a provider of open source software solutions, using a community-powered approach to develop and provide operating system, virtualization, management, middleware, cloud, mobile and storage technologies. The company provides its software offerings primarily under annual or multi-year subscriptions as well as on-demand through its certified cloud and service providers. The company's products and services include: Infrastructure-related offerings, which consist of Red Hat Enterprise, Red Hat Satellite, and Red Hat Virtualization; and Application Development-related and Other Emerging Technology Offerings, which consist of Red Hat JBoss Middleware, and Other Emerging Technologies.
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