Comments on: Microsoft bid is better than stagnating, say Yahoo insiders

Microsoft bid may be catalyst for needed change at Yahoo, but Yang and company are expected to fight it, insiders say.

[Commander_Spock]

Yeah! It Must Be "Payback" Time.

"Most people want to win and something bold needs to happen, so this could be the catalyst to make that happen sooner one way or another,..." Lotus Notes/Symphony running on Code-Base OS/2 (Windows) is Lotus Notes/Symphony running on Code-Base OS/2 (Windows) and all that has be be done is - Just Add Warp as OS/2 Yahoo Groups will recommend in stock market like ways to Google the Googles. Its our/your time to go "Deer Hunting" Microsoft. M :-$ ;-) :-)

[sanenazok]

nice kitty

see:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dno3r_rcqpU
Just replace hurling cats with hurling OS/2

[GGGlen]

better than stagnating?

"Better than stagnating" *some* say?

Then try this out for size...
In an informal poll (FWIW), Every Last Man, Woman & Soul in our
office said... "If this takeover takes place, we'll ditch Yahoo!
altogether for Google".

Admittedly we're small (2,500 employees total), but NO ONE I've
talked to thinks that eliminating competition is a good idea.
YMMV

[rdean]

MS bid is an integration challenge...

If the companies combine, the effort to move all the technologies in the same direction would be a drag on innovation for years. First, there's the technical challenge of moving all of Yahoo!'s UNIXy, open source scripty infrastructure to .Net. Secondly, there's the challenge of retaining the best and brightest of Yahoo!, who may prefer to look for other pastures rather than becoming Yet Another Microsoft Employee.

[Renegade Knight]

Grow or Die vs. Stagnate

You can grow on your own. Sure you will have tough periods, thats life in the business world.

Or you can be bought and swallowed alive by someone else. After the honeymoon though you will learn that that means being dismembered and your pieces and parts absorbed into MicroSoft. This won't be a merger of equils. Nor will it make MicroSoft stock do more than blip. Why? Because Microsoft has lost it's way and can't grow on it's own. It's also stagnant and trying to buy it's way into relevance. Ultimatly they will fail at that and maybe fail alltogether.

That's business.