> (Strategy of the company AFAIK is to acquire lots of enterprise offerings, integrate the product with their current offering, fire everyone they can, and then sell the product with their current offering in hopes of getting bigger numbers to prop up stock price further)

That's profitable because enterprise sales are so glacial.

So, if you have the money, it's better to wait until somebody else finishes the slog and gets the contract, and then you can just buy that company to get the enterprise customer.