Re:Bidding farewell to Google Code
by Spooky23 on Friday March 13, 2015 @07:49AM
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Have you ever done business with IBM? They do the exact same thing, all of the time, except that it's software so you need to deal with migration.
When IBM buys a company/product, they will merrily throw everything out and declare that v.next is the next version of whatever product you are using. Then the legacy product goes in life support.
OS/2 lived on because it was widely deployed in banking for ATMs and POS, and it generated a lot of complimentary revenue. So when a company like Target had 100,000 cash registers, IBM got to sell services around deployment and maintenance, and management software like Tivoli to manage the devices.
When IBM buys a company/product, they will merrily throw everything out and declare that v.next is the next version of whatever product you are using. Then the legacy product goes in life support.
OS/2 lived on because it was widely deployed in banking for ATMs and POS, and it generated a lot of complimentary revenue. So when a company like Target had 100,000 cash registers, IBM got to sell services around deployment and maintenance, and management software like Tivoli to manage the devices.