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Re:GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open ... by guitarsteve on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @05:14PM (#17242133)

Thanks for sharing!

I've often pondered that effect before but never knew it had a name.

In my case I was thinking of AWS versus "newer" competitors like Google Cloud Platform and Azure. AWS has a lot of services and usually keeps them running and backwards compatible. Newer companies could avoid making the less successful services and copy or take inspiration from the most successful services.

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Re:GitLab Ultimate and Gold now free for education and open ... by hinkley on Tuesday June 05, 2018 @08:46PM (#17243496)

The latter is the Innovator’s Dilemma.

Every bad decision my competitor made that I can identify ahead of time just narrows the gap.

This is why I favor execution excellence over cheap wins. If you can consistently introduce features quarter after quarter year after year, you can run down a competitor. And your sales guys can position the product with that story.

But it takes money and intestinal fortitude, and both are in short supply.

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