Re: Microsoft to announce buyout of Informix

Why wouldn't the SEC allow it? The reason the Intuit deal was blocked was because the only 2 real competitors in that market is Intuit's Quicken and Microsoft Money. Microsoft would have had a monopoly. Why wouldn'y Microsoft be able to buy Informix? Microsft and Informix products don't compete directly. MS Sql Server doesn'y compete at the same level as Informix. If Microsoft bought Informix, then it would be the big 3, i.e. Oracle, Sybase, and Microsoft. This would only increase competition which would benefit everyone.

Dave Petheram <davegp_at_ix.netcom.com> wrote in article <5kgutv$jml_at_dfw-ixnews12.ix.netcom.com>...
> Why would the SEC allow it when they didn't allow Bill to takeover
> Intuit?
>
> dp
>
>
> In <01bc582a$8096f9e0$38c3f326_at_mantis> "James McGovern"
> <mcgovej_at_commandsys.com> writes:
> >
> >When your look at INFORMIX over the last five or so years, think of
 all
> >the products that have been brought to market by INFORMIX.... Now
 think
> >of how much the market has taken up the offering's.... How much
> >resources do you think it takes to bring a product to market ? How
 long
> >do you think it takes to return an overall profit on the product ?
 .....
> > I'm guessing they have lost heaps of doe ray me over the last few
 years
> >because of diversification.
> >
> >One thing is certain, When money in the door slows down and money out
> >the door speeds up your asking for a takeover and I can't think of any
> >other company that has the proven record in software development like
> >Microsoft. When you think Captain Billy boy has taken the idea of
> >creating a dos for dummies environment and ran with it and now look at
> >the giant he has made. I can't wait to see what will happen with
> >INFORMIX and thank god we all have the opportunity to be there at the
> >start.
>
>
Received on Tue May 06 1997 - 00:00:00 CEST