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In brief: IBM closes its US$34B acquisition of Red Hat

IBM closed its US$34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, the companies announced Tuesday. Shares of IBM were down less than 1% in late-morning trading.  The deal was originally announced in October, when the companies said IBM would buy all shares in Red Hat for US$190 each in cash. The acquisition of Red Hat, an open-source, […]
  • IBM closed its US$34 billion acquisition of Red Hat, the companies announced Tuesday.
  • Shares of IBM were down less than 1% in late-morning trading. 
  • The deal was originally announced in October, when the companies said IBM would buy all shares in Red Hat for US$190 each in cash.
  • The acquisition of Red Hat, an open-source, enterprise software maker, marks the close of IBM’s largest deal ever.
  • It’s one of the biggest in U.S. tech history.
  • Excluding the AOL-Time Warner merger, it follows the $67 billion deal between Dell and EMC in 2016 and JDS Uniphase’s $41 billion acquisition of optical-component supplier SDL in 2000.
  • Under the deal, Red Hat will now be a unit of IBM’s hybrid cloud division, according to the original announcement.
  • IBM previously said it hoped its acquisition of Red Hat will help it do more work in the cloud, one of its four key growth drivers, which are also social, mobile and analytics.
  • The company lags behind Amazon and Microsoft in the cloud infrastructure business.
  • IBM has seen three consecutive quarters of declining year-over-year revenue.
  • But some analysts are hopeful about the Red Hat deal’s opportunity to bring in new business.

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