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It's a strategy for sure. But not the most effective or common in tech. The most common is to relegate your competitors stack into an open one and thus elimina
by intrasight 4y ago
It's a strategy for sure. But not the most effective or common in tech.
The most common is to relegate your competitors stack into an open one and thus eliminate their profit margin.
- jayd16 4y agoThat is EEE, no?
- jefftk 4y agoNo, that's commoditizing your complement.
- jayd16 4y agoYour competitor's stack isn't your compliment.
- jefftk 4y agoYou're right, this isn't the right term. (I was thinking that if the competitor's stack covers your whole business you open source an implementation, you don't have a business. And so whatever business you have left after open sourcing (support, etc) is your new business, and the rest is complement. But this is getting pretty far from what the term normally means which is finding areas that are naturally complementary to your existing business and commoditizing them.)
- intrasight 4y agoNo it is not. Consider for example PostgreSQL. Any company that supports PostgreSQL is undermining Oracles business.