At first the deal looked good, just the sort of merger that overbanked Germany still needs.
"WorldCom-Sprint is a very different sort of merger in that it is a straight horizontal merger, and AOL-Time Warner is a vertical merger.
But Ms. Lopez said she wanted to consider some sort of merger or partnership of Morphoses and Miami City Ballet, and was open to including Wheeldon works in her new company.
Dollar danger Try the Khmers Rouges Iran comes clean Reprints Related items After the dealJan 7th 1999One consequence has been an end to what Andrew Campbell, a British management guru, calls the "grass-is-greener" sort of merger.
However, he doubted any sort of merger was in the cards.
The end result is a sort of merger of World of Warcraft and Magic: The Gathering.
Whether you're proposing marriage or planning a different sort of merger, a good table at a ritzy restaurant no longer does the trick.
This sort of merger activity may continue over the next five to 10 years, according to Leo Larkin, an analyst for Standard & Poor's Equity Research.
One of the first things Ellison said on the conference call is that PeopleSoft Chief Executive Craig Conway Craig Conway had approached him last year about some sort of merger of their applications businesses, but that the companies could not agree on price and structure.
But this soon became the stuff of conspiracy theory, supposedly being just a preliminary to some sort of merger of Canada, Mexico and the United States into a supposedly-nightmarish regional government which would destroy life as we know it in America.
