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Speculative, but culture? Look at how the Motorola acquisition played out. Motorola was a company that had a pretty damn good (maybe just a bit heavy) enginee
by kev009 13y ago
Speculative, but culture?
Look at how the Motorola acquisition played out. Motorola was a company that had a pretty damn good (maybe just a bit heavy) engineering culture.
If you buy out a culturally bankrupt company infested with assholes, you have to root out all those assholes while simultaneously continuing operations and developing the future. I dare say this would be much harder than a new build out.
- kokon 13y agoAlso speculative, but Google probably has a set of equipments that don't work well with others. When you play in the access and transport space, there usually a set of standard that you have to follow, in order for it to work together with others. If Google owns the entire infrastructure, they can build their own equipments that are a lot simpler/cheaper to build, because they don't have to deal with all the standard-crap that other manufacturers have to deal with. If they bought TWC, then they need to integrate all those devices, including all of the OSSes that are guarded by bureaucrats.
- kirubakaran 13y agoYeah, they probably learned that the hard way from their DoubleClick acquisition.