Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B

Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by vageli on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @07:01PM (#21708510)

> Eliminating duplicative or wasteful structures are “synergies” whether that’s engineering, sales, support, manufacturing, or G&A staff, real estate, or basically anything else that has a fixed cost component.

I would characterize that as removing redundancy. Synergy has a different definition altogether.

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Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by sokoloff on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @08:39PM (#21709217)

The definitions I found across several dictionaries (after looking just now) all amounted to something like:

> the interaction of elements that when combined produce a total effect that is greater than the sum of the individual elements, contributions, etc.

When an intended effect of a for-profit company is profit and a combination of two companies becomes more profitable (has a greater total intended effect) as a result of the combination, how is that altogether different?

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Re:Carbonite To Be Acquired by OpenText for $1.4B by TeMPOraL on Thursday December 05, 2019 @06:56AM (#21711652)

Because the definition of "synergy" doesn't contain the part where you start firing people and closing departments to deduplicate jobs done in the now merged companies.

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