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信息技术
Information Technology
IBM的反叛呐喊
IBM's rebel yell
IBM收购红帽是史上最大的软件企业并购案
The group's takeover of Red Hat is the biggest ever between software firms
Big blue is donning red headgear. Even a few months ago the idea that IBM, a venerable corporate it firm, would buy Red Hat, the biggest vendor of open-source software, would have been considered highly unlikely, not least because of IBM's aversion to big mergers. But on October 28th IBM announced that it would take over the firm for $34bn, which represented a 63% premium over Red Hat’s closing share price at the end of the previous week.
蓝色巨人给自己戴上了红帽子。就在几个月前，外界还认为企业IT服务老店IBM收购最大的开源软件供应商红帽（Red Hat）的可能性极小，主要是因为IBM不喜欢大规模并购。但在10月28日，IBM宣布将以340亿美元收购红帽，比前一个周末红帽的收盘价溢价63%。
背景段。大致描述了故事发生的梗概，亦即要讨论的事件对象，即
IBM收购红帽。
Red Hat is no household name, but in the it industry the firm is considered a big success. Founded in 1993, it reached $2.9bn in revenue in its most recent fiscal year. It takes free open-source software, makes some improvements, bundles it with other tools and services such as technical support, and charges a monthly subscription fee. The first product was a version of Linux, an operating system. It later acquired or developed more and more pieces of software that are needed to power computing clouds. One of the latest additions to its collection was OpenShift, a program that allows computing tasks to be easily moved around between data centres.
红帽公司并非家喻户晓，但在IT行业内部被视为非常成功的企业。它创立于1993年，最近一个财年的收入达29亿美元。它把免费的开源软件拿来做些改进，将其与其他工具和技术支持等服务捆绑销售，按月收取订阅费。它的第一个产品是一版Linux操作系统。后来它又获得或开发了越来越多的软件以驱动云计算。它最新增加的产品中有一个OpenShift程序，能在数据中心之间轻松转移计算任务。
这一段主要解答的问题是红帽是谁，描述了红帽的背景及运营情况。
IBM for its part, has been struggling in recent years to transform itself from a firm which made most of its money from it services, software and mainframe computers to one that is based on cloud computing and artificial intelligence (ai). After 22 quarters of declining revenue, IBM seemed to be over the worst when its turnover started to increase early this year. But in the most recent quarter, revenue dipped again.
而IBM近年一直在竭力从一家主要依赖IT服务、软件和大型计算机赚钱的公司转变为基于云计算和人工智能（AI）的企业。在连续22个季度收入下降之后，今年年初IBM的营业额开始增长，似乎熬过了低谷，但在最近一个季度又调转头下跌。
这一段主要解答的问题是
IBM是谁，描述了IBM最近发生的转变与面临的情形。
