Microsoft tried to buy Mesosphere, a hot cloud computing startup, for as much as $150 million — but Mesosphere turned them down, reports The Information.
Rumors of a Microsoft/Mesosphere deal first surfaced over the summer, when it came out that the tech giant was interested in Mesosphere’s technology for managing the growing market for running data centers at super-high efficiency.
Apparently, the deal fell apart when Mesosphere wanted more than the $150 million that Microsoft was willing to offer, but couldn’t find another bidder willing to pay its desired price of $200 million, per the report.
Instead, Microsoft and Mesosphere will continue their technology partnership, which integrates Mesosphere’s flagship Data Center Operating System (DCOS) product with the Microsoft Azure cloud.
