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Originally Posted by carld
Yes, companies buy other companies all the time, but that says nothing about it being sinister or not. I know. I had a great job until my company was bought by a larger firm who cherry-picked a few engineers, fired everyone else, and dissolved the corporation. They only did it to get rid of competition so they could sell inferior equipment at higher prices. It was entirely sinister.
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True, it happened to HP and Compaq. But you know what? Business are business. When people start to mix feelings with that, the thing starts to affects you directly as well.
Unethical or sinister does not mean is illegal. So when keeping that in perspective and thinking in business terms, it is perfectly fine. All companies now do that all the time. There is no "good or bad" guy here. They need to survive in this competitive business world.
Not saying is sad when people got fired after merge. It happened to me that people had knowledge transfer with me about a particular project or database, knowing that they were going to lose their jobs later, but again, is business.
Big companies are not here to make us a "favor". Those companies want our money and they want us to buy ** their ** devices. You can call that device whatever you want.
I'm one of those who are really happy that AT&T merge did not occur, I like Tmobile as is. But that's business too.