An infusion of fresh blood for storage

http://weblog.infoworld.com/thestoragenetwork/archives/005100.html

Are you keeping up with the never ending sequel of merges and acquisitions in Storage? It gets difficult to follow, doesn't it?
Perhaps even more difficult is trying to understand (or guess) what kind of an impact the operation will have on the patient. Why the medical metaphor? Because after all blending two companies into one is somewhat similar to doing transplant surgery and there is alway a certain degree of uncertainty about the results.
Granted, when there is a big disproportion in size (IBM acquiring CIMS Lab, Inc. comes to mind) it's unlikely that the receiving body (IBM, in this case) will be significantly changed because of the new parts.
However, what will happen if the patient goes through tens of similar operations with different donors? Will the recipient transmute into a new and different body?

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