Wikipedia:Featured list candidates/List of mergers and acquisitions by Red Hat/archive1

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The list was promoted by User:Scorpion0422 22:28, 11 November 2008 [1].

List of mergers and acquisitions by Red Hat edit

Gary King (talk) 14:15, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support - since you link other publishers in the references, the Red Hat publisher should be linked to, in order to be consistent, other than that, the list meets WP:WIAFL.--S_RX 15:43, 31 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Support, all issues resolved. Dabomb87 (talk) 15:00, 1 November 2008 (UTC) [reply]

Resolved issues, Dabomb87 (talk)

Comments from Dabomb87 (talk · contribs)

"Red Hat has not released the value for most of these mergers and acquisitions." "value"-->financial details.
"with Young serving as chief executive officer"—It's that awkward "with + -ing" structure again.
In the Notes section, Red Hat is overlinked.
In the business section, spell out what IT stands for, or at least link it. Dabomb87 (talk) 13:51, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

All done Gary King (talk) 14:24, 1 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comments - sources look okay, links checked out with the link checker tool. Ealdgyth - Talk 17:45, 4 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Comment - I have to say that I don't really understand the divestment/divestiture section. You describe a divestment as when "parts of the company are sold to another company", and I know that this happens fairly often, usually because the subsidiary or division in question is not deemed to be 'core'. However I don't believe that another company taking a stake (i.e. buying shares) in Red Hat is the same thing at all. Most times the company whose shares are being bought has no say in the matter whereas the other items in this list are under their control. Am I missing something here? Boissière (talk) 22:29, 5 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The stock purchased by other companies was not acquired from the public; it was acquired through a private placement, so there was a mutual agreement between the companies. Also, the reference that I use lists these acquisitions as divestments when viewed from the primary company; that would be Red Hat in this case. Gary King (talk) 03:24, 6 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Ah, I wandered if it was something like that. I must admit I am slightly puzzled how the amount of stock bought can be kept secret if Red Hat is a public quoted company (which I presume it is) but perhaps that discussion is not relevant to this FLC. I would still say that it is a different thing from selling off a subsidiary or division. You also need to sort out whether the term 'divestment' or 'divestiture' is right. Boissière (talk) 20:36, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The financial website that I used as the reference uses the term "divestment" consistently. Gary King (talk) 20:41, 7 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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