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Re:In Technology, Small Fish Almost Always Eat Big Fish by voyou on Friday July 10, 2015 @06:32AM (#9863147)
Seems rather unconvincing to frame your article on "small fish" eating "big fish" with a story about big fish IBM vs the small fish of DEC and Sun. IBM currently has (according to Google) a market capitalisation of 160 billion dollars; DEC and Sun don't exist any more.
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Re:In Technology, Small Fish Almost Always Eat Big Fish by wslh on Friday July 10, 2015 @07:22AM (#9863263)
And Apple, and Microsoft, and Oracle...

I think now companies are more conscious about the innovator dilemma and they can acquire innovators before they grow and integrate or kill them into their ecosystem.

Although the innovator dilemma is real, company profits came also from support contracts, so acquiring a cheaper more innovative product will also include a big support contract.

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