The far end of this continuum is CA Technologies where they buy products with an entrenched customer base and squeeze them for money while putting the product o

The far end of this continuum is CA Technologies where they buy products with an entrenched customer base and squeeze them for money while putting the product on "sustaining engineering" (aka hospice care). On the continuum of "innovative product solving hard problem" to "Rent seeing monopoly" AWS is still in the "build the mouse trap" phase while oracle's half way to CA.