Opinion is split, but here's some evidence to consider.
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 is the Word Wrangler for Virtual Quill, a writing agency serving the computer and networking industries. If your target customer doesn't know your product, doesn't know its uses and doesn't know he needs it, he's not going to buy it.