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You know how we get companies that are too big to fail?
"IBM in talks to buy Sun Microsystems for $7 billion"
You realize that IBM is already worth over $100 billion, right? $7 billion is chump change.
Not my point. My point is that companies get too big to fail by buying all of their competitors. If you become the predominate provider of IT hardware and service then you become too big to fail.