Saul Hansell of the New York Times has an updated overview of the proposed Microsoft purchase of Yahoo. As his article’s title implies, merging the two companies is like building a rocket ship from spare parts. Which business units should be kept? What technologies will be used? What strategies will continue, and what new plans will be implemented?
The biggest risk is that engineering teams from Microsoft and Yahoo will spend years fighting to prove their systems are better and their bosses will listen instead of cutting off debate, picking something and trying to actually take on Google.
See my earlier articles from 4 February and 1 February 2008 for more comments.
