That whole narrative Don lays out really bothers me. All week, I have been trying to take a "we can't really know the truth, business is tough, bad stuff happens" stance about a lot of this disaster. But when someone with a track record for making good notation software comes to your company, offers to address a long-standing sore point with the user-base by adding their notation abilities to Sonar -- a fix that, by the sound of it, would eliminate the need for a lot of in-house dev work and would be achievable without a huge investment in time -- and your parent company turns them down
twice (the second time after both parties go to great lengths to meet the initial objections)...then something is up.