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Corporations famously are unable to take advantage of potential internal innovations. Sun Microsystems couldn't do dedicated network storage, leading to Auspex.
by bediger4000 3y ago
Corporations famously are unable to take advantage of potential internal innovations. Sun Microsystems couldn't do dedicated network storage, leading to Auspex. Auspex couldn't do cheapo storage, leading to NetApp. And then there's the Fairchildren.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoThe typical business reason to do this is to erect patent walls around areas of innovation or investment happening parallel to the patents to prevent others from either competing directly or suing to enforce their own parents through a mutually assured destruction argument. Rarely is it a patent is the genesis of invention at these companies but as a result of other activity.
- CoastalCoder 3y ago> And then there's the Fairchildren. Is that referring to companies that originated from Fairchild in some way?