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> 2) Inability to capitalize on their inventions. IBM used Java as a common language across all of their enterprise platforms, they sold Websphere as a common a
by musicale 2y ago
> 2) Inability to capitalize on their inventions. IBM used Java as a common language across all of their enterprise platforms, they sold Websphere as a common application platform. NetApp was able to build a large business off NFS.
Personally I'm grateful to Sun for developing useful things like Java and NFS for the rest of the industry. IBM and NetApp certainly are as well.
Innovator's dilemma perhaps. It's certainly hard for a large company to pivot to new businesses. Apple remarkably entered the music player, tablet, smartphone, and smart watch businesses, as well as new services businesses. Now the Mac is almost an afterthought compared to the iPhone. Apple even seems to sell more iPads than Macs (though Mac revenue is slightly higher?) And they weren't afraid to let the iPhone kill off the iPod (though I still miss the iPod touch, basically a wi-fi only iPhone.)