OT: Caterpillar to buy Bucyrus for $7,6B

[dpb]

Not exactly home, but interesting...

[Ed Pawlowski]

I hate to see a 130 year old company being sold. Of course, they did some buying over the years themsleves.

[Lew Hodgett]

[Martin Eastburn]

For a company that made machines that dug the Panama Canal they had a good run. It isn't that they were so bad but the bigger fish just ate them. A down year or quarter isn't much for a long range company.

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