🚀 go-pugleaf

On Thu, 30 Sep 2010 07:32:14 GMT, "David L. Jones"
<altzone@gmail.com> wrote:

>Yep, the evil Danaher group have gobbled up another one:
>
>http://www.danaher.com/news/news_detail.asp?key=386
>
>Dave.

After taking Tektronix private a few years back, among other
things.

There's a lot of oligarch wealth looking for a mattress to
stuff.  Anything that isn't nailed to US middle class
spending, which isn't an area that is doing well right now.
Acquisitions are happening left and right, often called a
'mania' in our news, as a place to put cash because interest
rates are at rock bottom and it is literally "bad business"
to sit on cash considering futures.  Many companies are
relative bargains and there are a few where the future
remains bright despite the bitter situation in the US.

Putting cash there is considered 'smart.'

Tektronix once competed with Keithley and Fluke and gave that
up.  I still have one of Tek's RMS voltmeters, for example,
bought during a time when that competition held prices at
very reasonable figures.  (I paid about $45 for it.)  Then
Tek left the market.

Now, if Danaher can just buy Fluke....  Oh oh... cripes... ;)

Jon