Welcome to the Tech Mem Ride Home from Monday October 29th.

I'm Chris Higgins in for Brian McCullough.

Today, IBM buys Red Hat.

Museums get new ways to preserve video games,

Sony announces the full list of titles for its retro PlayStation mini console,

DJI has a drone for first responders,

and a look at a site I just heard of starting this weekend

called GAB. Let's go.

Big news in the Enterprise Software World, Big Blue, that's IBM of course, announced that it's acquiring Red Hat in a deal valued at $34 billion.

IBM will pay cash to buy all of Red Hat's shares and $190 each.

By the way, that valuation is about 60% higher than Red Hat's

closing price on Friday. At the time I wrote this story Red Hat was up about 50%

in Monday's trading. After the deal goes through Red Hat will become part of IBM's hybrid cloud division.

Red Hat provides popular versions of the open source Linux operating system,

along with services and support to keep them running.

This is a big deal for lots of reasons, but the first is really the

bigness of the financial transaction involved. Here's one way to put it in perspective, quoting

CNBC. The acquisition is by far IBM's largest deal ever and the third biggest in the history of US Tech.

Excluding the AOL Time Warner merger, the only larger deals were the 67 billion dollar merger between Dell and EMC in 2016 and JDS

Unifaz's 41 billion dollar acquisition of optical component supplier

SDL in 2000 just as the dot-com bubble was bursting."

Now, the other big deal aspect of this acquisition is the apparent trend of big software

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