Microsoft to acquire FAST Search & Transfer

In a mandatory notification to the Oslo Stock Exchange, Microsoft is announcing an offer to acquire FAST Search & Transfer at a price of NOK 6.6 billion, or roughly 1.2 billion USD.

A (rather fluffy) press release is issued as a MS Word document. I’ve provided a PDF version here

Without commenting further, I’m waiting for an influx of Unix/Linux people looking for new jobs shortly…

Comments

Comment from Jakob Breivik Grimstveit on 2008-01-08 13:47

I know about at least a few guys who most definetly not will be happy about this in FAST :-)…

Btw; pg3/3 in the PDF says 2/3

Comment from Arve on 2008-01-08 14:52

Jakob: That bug seems to be in the original Word document :-)

And yeah, I’ve already heard rumours of FAST employees who plan on resigning.

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