Edited sentence: SunGard has been repeatedly criticized by analysts for an inability to grow organically and preserve the value of the acquired businesses.SunGard is essentially a profitable conglomerate, its software and processing business is cyclical, whereas Availability Services is counter cyclical, resulting in fairly consistent financial results.The reason SunGard remained in one piece was because Availability Services was a very reliable revenue earner, and the consortium of private equity firms would not be interested in acquiring the less stable parts of SunGard (especially software and processing).Very often after a short respite, SunGard makes savage cuts in R&D in acquired businesses and tries to cross-sell its other products to the customers of the acquired firm