I always thought that Blackberry would be a strategic buy for Oracle. They would then be in a position to provide near end to end business services for enterprises assuming assuming they started manufacturing laptops and PC's or acquired someone already in that space.
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> Cisco, Google and SAP are among the other tech firms reportedly weighing bid<p>Fascinating. All the while we here at HN thought Blackberry was just done, done, and done, we see all these companies lining up with interest to buy? While we thought it wouldn't be acquired by any serious buyer, the 'Warren Buffet of Canada' makes the move?<p>We just live in another world don't we. Does anyone want to comment on this -- the big difference in our line of thinking (the typical HN reader) and that of the finance world on the outside?
BlackBerry still has millions of customers and a pretty decent OS built, someone could buy them and probably do pretty well, especially someone like Lenovo, Oracle, Dell, IBM, etc.
This somewhat explains (but doesn't justify) their desperate, last minute push of BBM across competing platforms. With real subscriber cash flow taking a nose dive, reasoning now is let's grab user market share and look good for a sell out pulling the social network card that's BBM.
FB phone an epic flop - let's buy the dinosaur of the market!<p>Id love to see FB buy rim just to see the debacle of throwing their hubris at the HW and see how widely it misses the mark.