Even if they didn't make business changes in anticipation of this... Imagine you're one of the top employees working on a product, and that your company announ

Even if they didn't make business changes in anticipation of this... Imagine you're one of the top employees working on a product, and that your company announces it's going to acquire a competitive product to yours for $20B and replace your product with that product, and this is looming for 15 months. Are you still employed there in that group? Are you still an effective employee? How's morale?