I just read that BlackBerry plans to cut its op costs by 50 percent by the first quarter of 2015.... that's over a year away, so do they plan on staying a company until then? why would they plan on doing something way down the road if they were going to sell themselves to another company??
I hope this is right cause that means BlackBerry will remain BlackBerry!
Strategic alternatives doesn't mean partnership. In finance it almost always means a change in ownership, break-up, abandonment of business lines.
Going private would be for the best, then they wouldn't have to release bad news days after a product launch. But it also likely means they would likely be free to carve up the company ending blackberry as we know it.