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Ray Ozzie: Microsoft and Yahoo! Would Not Just Be Smashed Together

"They have a number of different types of technologies. They have their own corporate culture."
By Jeremy Geelan
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March 10, 2008 12:30 PM EDT
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Speaking to the Financial Times, Microsoft's Chief Software Architect Raymond Ozzie commented last week when asked about the likely trajectory of any Microsoft-Yahoo! integration, if the companies did indeed ever merge: 'Technology companies, if they dive in and just smash things together for smashing them together's sake, it's reckless, it's just simply reckless.'

Ozzie told the FT that he was “very optimistic” that Microsoft could pull off the main goals of the deal, however. 

The trick was not to hurry to get all the financial and other benefits from a consolidation of the two companies’ operations, while neglecting the corporate cultural issues: "“They have a number of different types of technologies. They have their own corporate culture,” Ozzie told the Financial Times.

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Jeremy Geelan is Sr. Vice-President of SYS-CON Media & Events. He is Conference Chair of the all-new International Cloud Computing Conference & Expo series, of the International Virtualization Conference & Expo series, of AJAXWorld RIA Conference & Expo series, and of the long-running SOAWorld Conference & Expo series. He's founder of Cloud Computing Journal, Web 2.0 Journal, AJAX & RIA Journal and other leading SYS-CON titles. From 2000-6, as first editorial director and then group publisher of SYS-CON Media, he was responsible for the development of all new titles and i-Technology portals for the firm, and regularly represents SYS-CON at conferences and trade shows, speaking to technology audiences both in North America and overseas. He is executive producer and presenter of "Power Panels with Jeremy Geelan" on SYS-CON.TV.

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