> buy tech that's still bringing in money, fire everyone except a small core of people to keep the product barely alive with minor updates, sell expensive long-

> buy tech that's still bringing in money, fire everyone except a small core of people to keep the product barely alive with minor updates, sell expensive long-term licenses to enterprises. That's pretty much what they did with Sencha/ExtJS, too. Not that it wasn't in dire straits even before the acquisition, though.