They buy legendary brand names and then milk the cow until it's dead. No feeding the cow, that lowers profit lol. This is what conglomerates do. It's all so tiresome.
Fortive sucks ass, R&D and new product rollout is pretty much nothing compared to before acquisitions. They are about fintech, catering to investors and all that death to innovation that results.
If I have to see another re-hash of the Fluke 87 with price increase
it's comedy now but the end of LTC will force a move there.
Tektronix requires a lot of R&D spending to compete, it's long-term not a Boeing kind of rush. Of course no conglomerate wants to spend that money. It takes years to build up such a business and sorry, the cow is dead... spinning off a dead cow?