What exactly to make of the Barron's article about Orion being listed for sale by Raymond James for $1.8 billion -- and how it boils down to 'when', not if

Well as far as the "are we or aren't we". So many employees, over so many years, have been at firms and heard rumblings of mergers, buy outs, etc. Having been at Reynolds Securities, Inc. - an institutional house at the time, we heard rumblings for more than 2 years. Our owner, Mr. Stanley said "over his dead body". Then he died. We were told no way, never happening, they were too big and in a different niche. Then the day came where we walked into work and read about a (so called) merger on Reuters, like everyone else. We were now part of Dean Witter - a retail shop, which became Dean Witter Reynolds, then just Dean Witter, before Morgan Stanley bought them. I say... believe the rumors!