former yahoo employee

Yahoo's Future: The Employee Perspective

YAHOO AND MS have different technologies - not just different but no way it could be integrated . MS won't keep java or Oracle or file systems data processing built on top of Open Source code.
Who will survive - middle management and upper management.
Who will be replaced - developers and technical leads unless they will pick up Program management positions.
Employees will leave , lots of employees will be 'replaced' and layoffs will continue.
But there is not other way for Yahoo that is losing the revenue based on lots of ad serving redundant systems that can not work together by many reasons.
Yahoo MUST BE SOLD - it can not be rebuilt. That is the bottom line.
Board of directors will be much richer, employees is that who will be in an insecure territory.
MS will buy Yahoo. Yahoo will be cut by half. Then it start to grow and many employees will be returning to new MS corporate culture to redevelop and repair damage that had been done during 'transition'... in 3 years advertisement systems and search may start working as they do now but under MS umbrella.
Overall, MS will gain the presence in valley having not only struggling hotmail team but Search and Ad serving company with 10k employees. I can bet that it will go in 3 years to 20k employees as many Live and other Platform MS groups will move to Valley... Strategically, it is THE VERY SMART MOVE FOR MS - kill yahoo as competitor and get started 'occupation' of MS software in valley as well as killing redundant and money spreading structures inside MS - ad center, MSN, MSN live, Hotmail and etc... MS employees also would be 'transitioned' but won't lose jobs as Yahoo's ones. As techy guy I don't like MS software but I am applauding the strategic thinking of Mr. Gates and associates.