"History is a wonderful thing, if only it was true"
-Tolstoy

Thursday, February 14, 2008

Might be entertaining to watch

Looks like a pending train wreck to me.

Remember, most of the value (talent) walks out the door every day. And MuSoft is not loved.

Ad-vantage Google

Will Yahoo! Feel the Love?

"The challenge is made all the more difficult because Microsoft and Yahoo would merge as two struggling rivals, trying to catch up in the online advertising business to an increasingly powerful Google. That, some experts say, could be an indication of troubles ahead. "Virtually all the deals from Hell are done by companies that are collapsing into each other's arms like a defeated prizefighter," says Robert F. Bruner, dean of the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia and author of Deals from Hell, a book that examines failed mergers."

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