Re:Never outsource your core
by wglb on Wednesday February 06, 2013 @04:01PM
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Or is their core business marketing?
An example: Borland marketed Pascal and later C compilers. (Ok, sorry--from the deep dark past.) They outsourced both pieces of technology. So you might think that this is an example of outsourcing core competency.
But their core competency was Marketing--Phillipe Kahn, during that period had glow-in-the-dark PR.
(Incidentally, the technological genius behind both products was none other than Anders Hejlsberg.)
An example: Borland marketed Pascal and later C compilers. (Ok, sorry--from the deep dark past.) They outsourced both pieces of technology. So you might think that this is an example of outsourcing core competency.
But their core competency was Marketing--Phillipe Kahn, during that period had glow-in-the-dark PR.
(Incidentally, the technological genius behind both products was none other than Anders Hejlsberg.)