politics

Posted Jan 30, 2010 21:49 UTC (Sat) by dmarti (subscriber, #11625)
In reply to: Sun Deal Complete, Oracle Says 'We're Hiring' (Datamation) by elanthis
Parent article: Sun Deal Complete, Oracle Says 'We're Hiring' (Datamation)

Also, from a corporate politics POV, you need to break up any coherent potential power bases in the acquired company. Yes, kind of Machiavellian, but Ransom Love at Caldera was too much of a nice guy to do it, and look where it got him.

See also Danese Cooper on the "plan to subjugate Sun culture".