MacDailyNews Take: $38.5 billion? How quaint.
Willis continues, “Specifically, there’s talk on trading desks that with RIM shares changing hands at a relatively modest 15 times its forecast earnings, and half the levels seen in 2008, big dogs such as Microsoft are sniffing around… There’s also nothing right now to suggest talks are actually taking place between RIM and a potential suitor. Steve Ballmer hasn’t been seen skulking about Waterloo, and even if he was, it wouldn’t mean much, as the Microsoft CEO is a frequent visitor to Canada’s top tech university, just down the road from RIM’s head office.”
Willis reports, “However, there is a great deal of noise.”
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MacDailyNews Take: Do it, Mr. Ballmer. Hasten RIM’s inevitable decline. We know you can do it!
I don’t want Microsoft to buy RIM, if for no other reason, I don’t want them to give RIMs owner any greater opportunity to take my Phoenix Coyotes out of Arizona.
@wannabe
If they do not win a majority in mobile they are doomed.
yeah? So what’s your point?
Winmobile, Danger, Pink, Zune, RIM… what a fine bunch of cadavers that would be to display on Ballmer’s mantle.
I (still) like our strategy. I like it a lot.
Please pass me another chair.
I don’t think MS can afford to give up their mobile OS effort, and Steve B has too big an ego to throw in the towel. So I would not be surprised if MS buys their way into a new mobile OS. I’m betting it will be Palm before RIMM though, because Palm’s OS is already more modern ethan RIMM’s.
I think RIMM’s problem may be it being tied to its legacy OS. It would likely take a herculean effort to upgrade both the Server and Handheld platform. Fortunately, Apple made us all swallow that bitter pill when it moved us all to OSX from System”X” years ago.
Fortunately, there is enough bad blood between MS and Goog for Android to remain open source and not become a MS platform.
Since Nokia bought Symbian, so what else is left?
Saw a TV ad today and RIM was giving away two blackberrys for the price of one. Can’t be good for RIM.