These days we&#x27;d call the Cupertino&#x2F;Campbell&#x2F;Saratoga area &quot;Apple&quot;, the San Jose&#x2F;Fremont&#x2F;Los Gatos area &quot;Cisco&quot;, the Mountain View&#x2F;Atherton&#x2F;Alviso area &quot;Google&quot;, the Palo Alto&#x2F;Menlo Park&#x2F;East Palo Alto area &quot;Facebook&quot; :-)<p>Back when this sort of merger was a bigger thing than it is today there was an analysis of the number of fat bureaucrat jobs that could be eliminated (replacing police chiefs, city managers, fire chiefs, mayors etc) somehow all the wind went out of the excitement.