IBM → Red Hat
IBM paid a large premium to accelerate hybrid cloud relevance and acquire a scarce enterprise open-source platform.
Strategic overpay
Deal value
$34.0B
Announced
Oct. 28, 2018
Buyer type
Strategic
Consideration
Cash
Why ImpliedAI flags this deal
The preview model gives credit for strategic urgency and asset quality but flags the premium as elevated relative to mature infrastructure software benchmarks.
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