Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant

Re:Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Cannibalistic Culture Th... by minimax on Tuesday July 03, 2012 @08:02PM (#4196907)

> most of the really interesting work isn't done by little companies

What a ridiculous thing to say. Remember Google when it was small? Two guys came up with better web search algorithms than all their deep-pocketed competition. Look at what Arista and Gnodal are doing in the LAN switching space. Hell, look at basically all of Cisco's new technology offerings for the past 10 years. They're all based on technology Cisco acquired via acquisitions of small companies. In aerospace look at Scaled Composites and SpaceX.

New technology comes from small companies, not big ones.

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Re:Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Cannibalistic Culture Th... by epo on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @10:14AM (#4199471)

> New technology comes from small companies, not big ones.

What a ridiculous thing to say, Some new technologies, of necessity, require deep pockets. E.g. pharmaceuticals, pretty much anything to do with semiconductors, aerospace, automotive engineering. Small companies are like teams within a large company, sometimes they get lucky and get bought out. Far more often, they don't.

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Re:Microsoft’s Downfall: Inside the Cannibalistic Culture Th... by mjwalshe on Wednesday July 04, 2012 @06:20AM (#4198744)

AT&T cough Transistors cough BT and AT&T Ethernet cough

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