Wall Streets cheers the news of a possible Disney-Pixar deal - Jan. 24, 2006
According to several reports, Walt Disney is expected to soon announce a deal to by Pixar, the animated studio led by Apple founder Steve Jobs. Upon completion of a deal, Jobs would become the biggest individual shareholder of Disney and could even snag a board seat at the House of Mouse.
I suppose you could ask will Pixar save Disney, but my experience is that it isn't the company being acquired that wins the inevitable political infighting. Even if Jobs was the single largest individual share-holder, that doesn't make him the boss, and even if he were the boss, he wouldn't be attending every meeting where the old guard would be trying to crush the upstarts. My bet is that the Disney way of doing things would crush the innovation and artistry right out of Pixar.