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Are there any good examples of products acquired that then thrived or even really continued to do reasonably well? It seems more common for a product to be acq
by ubermonkey 4y ago
Are there any good examples of products acquired that then thrived or even really continued to do reasonably well?
It seems more common for a product to be acquired and then languish as the people who care about it leave or are forced out. For example: the Primavera scheduling tool has mostly languished since being acquired by Oracle.
- soganess 4y agoDon't laugh... But beats headphones? Still reasonably popular and act as Apple's headphone market + supply chain testing platform.
- ubermonkey 4y agoI guess I meant to specify software. I can think of a few places where hardware products got traction under new ownership. The problem seems to be one that only afflicts software products.
- unmole 4y agoYouTube?
- fomine3 4y agoPowerPoint, Visio, After Effects, Android (but very early), Java, Red Hat (currently) Red Hat is on similar position.