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| From | rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | comp.arch.embedded |
| Subject | Re: ARM about to be sold |
| Date | 2016-07-18 11:01 -0400 |
| Organization | A noiseless patient Spider |
| Message-ID | <nmir0j$or$1@dont-email.me> (permalink) |
| References | <nmih94$u0o$1@dont-email.me> |
On 7/18/2016 8:15 AM, Simon Clubley wrote: > ARM is about to be sold to a Japanese company: > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-36822806 > > As a Brit, it saddens me to see a British success story sold into foreign > hands, but my real concern is about what the future might bring several > years down the road. I read they expect to double the UK workforce, so not all bad. > Questions currently going through my mind include whether ARM will > still be able to perform R&D at their current rate and whether ARM's > engineers will be outsourced in the future and replaced with lower > quality staff. I doubt it. Would you pay billions for a working company and then mess it up? Anyone who can raise billions is not stupid. > I know the new owners are promising a major new resource investment but > promises and eventual reality are not always the same thing if the > investment ends up being badly mismanaged. I've got no direct reason > to suspect it will be mismanaged, but I have some general unease about > possible issues around the cultural compatibility of ARM with a foreign > investor. What makes you think they will get into the management at all rather than just taking the profits and saying "thank you"? I think ARM is too big a force for an owner to mess up. The customers are huge and have a lot of throw weight. -- Rick C
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ARM about to be sold Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> - 2016-07-18 12:15 +0000
Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-18 11:01 -0400
Re: ARM about to be sold Rob Gaddi <rgaddi@highlandtechnology.invalid> - 2016-07-18 16:44 +0000
Re: ARM about to be sold "tim..." <tims_new_home@yahoo.com> - 2016-07-18 17:53 +0100
Re: ARM about to be sold "Bill Davy" <Bill@SynectixLtd.com> - 2016-07-19 12:06 +0100
Re: ARM about to be sold Mike Perkins <spam@spam.com> - 2016-07-18 19:25 +0100
Re: ARM about to be sold Nils M Holm <nmh@ananda.local> - 2016-07-18 19:10 +0000
Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-18 17:58 -0400
Re: ARM about to be sold Tim Wescott <seemywebsite@myfooter.really> - 2016-07-18 22:50 -0500
Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 03:13 -0400
Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-19 10:23 +0300
Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-19 10:26 -0400
Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-19 17:35 +0300
Re: ARM about to be sold Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-07-26 10:57 -0500
Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-26 13:23 -0400
Re: ARM about to be sold Evgeny Filatov <filatov.ev@mipt.ru> - 2016-07-26 20:39 +0300
Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-26 13:49 -0400
Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-26 20:51 +0300
Re: ARM about to be sold Evgeny Filatov <filatov.ev@mipt.ru> - 2016-07-26 21:08 +0300
Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-26 22:57 +0300
Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-26 20:56 +0300
Re: ARM about to be sold Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-07-26 13:45 -0500
Re: ARM about to be sold Dimiter_Popoff <dp@tgi-sci.com> - 2016-07-27 03:45 +0300
Re: ARM about to be sold Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-07-27 11:26 -0500
Re: ARM about to be sold lasselangwadtchristensen@gmail.com - 2016-07-27 15:00 -0700
Re: ARM about to be sold Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-07-28 01:46 -0500
Re: ARM about to be sold Simon Clubley <clubley@remove_me.eisner.decus.org-Earth.UFP> - 2016-07-28 17:39 +0000
Re: ARM about to be sold rickman <gnuarm@gmail.com> - 2016-07-26 18:13 -0400
Re: ARM about to be sold Les Cargill <lcargill99@comcast.com> - 2016-07-26 10:49 -0500
Re: ARM about to be sold Paul Rubin <no.email@nospam.invalid> - 2016-07-18 08:20 -0700
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