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This is not a good road for anybody to go down. It's been done before. My primary example is the behemoth that is CA technologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wi
by danesparza 6y ago
This is not a good road for anybody to go down. It's been done before. My primary example is the behemoth that is CA technologies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CA_Technologies https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CA_Technologies
They started acquiring software in the 1980's. Software that would be reasonably good would go to CA to die an awful and slow death.
They're still around. They don't own a single piece of groundbreaking software, but they still make money.
- kumarvvr 6y agoHaha. History of technology is littered with anecdotes like this. Almost all big tech companies have huge graveyards of acquired software companies, some for the products, some for tech, some for people. The targets are acquired, in-digested and slowly die. What is left is a lot of millionaires / billionaires who move on to other big things, a lot of half-baked tech / feature stuff, a lot of wasted potential.
- oarabbus_ 6y ago>This is not a good road for anybody to go down. On the contrary, it seems that WeChat has been wildly successful in China.