Path dependency has long been the savior of under-performing companies. The amount of coasting all the companies from IBM down did once they had an install-base

Path dependency has long been the savior of under-performing companies. The amount of coasting all the companies from IBM down did once they had an install-base is crazy. Sun just couldn't do it in the long term because the software that ran on Solaris was to easy to move to Linux and arguably their install base was to small.