That's all wishful thinking but culture and internal drivers matters a ton and I'm pretty sure the focus upon nothing but b2b and just bending for customers by

That's all wishful thinking but culture and internal drivers matters a ton and I'm pretty sure the focus upon nothing but b2b and just bending for customers by relentless cost-cutting innovations rather than ones that are diversified are what led to their decline. Marc Andreessen was talking about how Opsware could have been AWS and I had to laugh so hard because if Amazon had released AWS with the kind of broken, unscalable software the Opsware product was about the time HP acquired it, they'd have met with the same success as the Amazon Fire Phone.