Microsoft wants to buy Mellanox – Speculations or reality?
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Mellanox, an Israeli company, is a leader when it comes to FPGAs and all kinds of programmable logic in the switches and NICs. The latter allow having 25Gbps at a cost and quality level traditional network companies won’t allow. Recently rumors about an acquisition of Mellanox by Microsoft began to circulate. The only decision assessment does not exist, as well as the determination of reasons for which Microsoft decided to take this move. Why does Microsoft want to buy Mellanox?
Read the article by Didier Van Hoye, a Microsoft technology expert, to explore all pitfalls of this issue.
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Mellanox have been great devices, Hopefully Microsoft doesn't butcher this one...
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@dbeato said in Microsoft wants to buy Mellanox – Speculations or reality?:
Mellanox have been great devices, Hopefully Microsoft doesn't butcher this one...
Or get involved at all.
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This seems like a really odd pairing. Why would Microsoft want to alienate hardware vendors by getting into the high end switching game?
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@Reid-Cooper said in Microsoft wants to buy Mellanox – Speculations or reality?:
This seems like a really odd pairing. Why would Microsoft want to alienate hardware vendors by getting into the high end switching game?
Probably for their Azure stuff.
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@Obsolesce said in Microsoft wants to buy Mellanox – Speculations or reality?:
@Reid-Cooper said in Microsoft wants to buy Mellanox – Speculations or reality?:
This seems like a really odd pairing. Why would Microsoft want to alienate hardware vendors by getting into the high end switching game?
Probably for their Azure stuff.
Then they should just purchase the equipment, not the company. .
