Funny you should say that
my employer, a smallish specialised software company owned by a British engineering company was flogged off on the cheap to an American company so the parent company could pay off a bit of a loan on a new building. The previous CEO of the former parent company was much more interested in using the pleasant green, leafy site with listed manor house as a property empire than the core business - he has retired (doubtless to a supervillain extinct volcano somewhere) but the company is clearly struggling. Meanwhile somewhere on continental Europe a very similar company has concentrated on the core business and has absolutely boomed.
(Anon for half hearted self preservation reasons)
Biting the hand that feeds IT
