Better RIM Than Yahoo …

October 10, 2008 at 11:37 am PT

Just because Microsoft acquired Danger doesn’t mean the company has its eye on Research in Motion (RIMM), though some observers apparently feel otherwise. Noting the ugly decline in RIM’s share price in recent months and a financial crisis that’s already slowing the corporate IT spending that is its lifeblood, Canaccord Adams analyst Peter Misek speculates that the Blackberry peddler is a good takeover target for Microsoft (MSFT). “RIM is a massive strategic fit [for Microsoft],” Misek told Reuters. “I’m fairly certain they have a standing offer to buy them at $50 (a share).”

Really? Leaving aside for a moment the fact that Microsoft already has a mobile OS in Windows Mobile and the fact that RIM’s client architecture is, you know, based on Linux, wouldn’t a merger between two of the largest players in the smartphone market invite antitrust scrutiny?

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Well, of course the same could have been said of Yahoo: Runs BSD, competes with existing MS products.

I personally think ANY big company bought by Microsoft should invite a Federal investigation. Anything involving software will work its way into the next version of Windows placing all competitors at an almost insurmountable disadvantage.

If they want to get into the wooden stepladder business… OK, no investigation needed for that. Maybe.