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Even with best intentions from both sides, acquisitions don't go well in a lot of cases. It's quite common to have the following scheme: 1) nothing significan
by kakwa_ 8y ago
Even with best intentions from both sides, acquisitions don't go well in a lot of cases.
It's quite common to have the following scheme:
1) nothing significant happens for 1 to 2 years, the big company slowly integrates the smaller one.
2) historical dev/ops starts to be tired of the heaviness of the processes and all the politics going on in the big organization. After 3 to 4 years, they start leaving, and knowledge begins slowly to get lost.
3) new features are slower to be pushed in production, often with major regressions.
4) after 5 years the service is becoming more and more unstable and/or is not evolving anymore.
5) after 7 to 10 years, the product is killed-off or put in limbo.
- da_chicken 8y agoYeah, but most of that happens whether or not your product is acquired or not. Acquisition may, and often does, accelerate the process, but almost every application eventually suffers from loss of focus, feature bloat, and changes within the industry. Those that don't tend to stagnate completely and get replaced when someone re-invents the wheel from the ground up with a few improvements. I mean, forget that happening to GitHub, that will probably happen to git in 10 years or so.