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Surprise, surprise. MOT is right-sizing, down-sizing, reducing-in-force, seeking voluntary terminations, or whatever the term du jour is these days for getting rid of dead weight. And God knows, MOT has a lot of it. How many more of these will Zander, or whoever is running that cesspool of MBA losers disguised as a telecom/technology company, go through before admitting the inevitable - that MOT needs to be broken up in as many pieces as possible, so as to shatter the corporate culture which burdens the remaining capital assets and intellectual property?

Probably 40% of the average Motorolan's work day is devoted to complying, monitoring, and analyzing human resource schemes for compensation and ladder-climbing. When you're inside of that kind of environment, it is simply impossible to focus on activities essential to the corporate livelihood - namely sales, new product development, customer service.

If ever there was a juicy piece of low-hanging technology fruit for a creative private equity firm, MOT is it.