Hi folks
I wanted to share a bit of real information.
I am not sure when the hammer will fall on all of us, but I can tell you that the EU must publish its decision to allow or not allow the merge by October 17. Please see
http://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/case_details.cfm?proc_code=2_M_9054
I am not sure when Japan has to do the same. Does anyone have information on that ?
Since likely they are waiting on these decisions to go public with what they want to do with us, and obviously our "leadership" is not sharing anything, you can expect to see some motion after that date.
On the other hand, I know my comment will go unnoticed in the doom and gloom, and I am not making myself great illusions, but for instance our GIS guys have started training in the Broadcom IT environment, which means it won't be close-it-all on day 1.