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With an acquisition, however, it's rare for the acquired firm's CEO to become CEO of the purchaser - traditionally it's a vice president's role that is taken on. CTP, while not performing as badly as Novell over the past year or two, nevertheless was showing disappointing numbers and was losing market share to some high-powered competition, so the buyout comes at a good time for its stockholders. This latest news does nothing to change my opinion. Dave Kearns, a former network administrator, is a freelance writer and consultant in Austin, Texas. As increasingly powerful processing capabilities are embedded into ever- smaller devices, the computing landscape is shifting toward physically smaller gadgets.