> why should the company keep them around? Smart companies should know that a large chunk of their value chain is knowledge work. For airplanes the danger of s

> why should the company keep them around? Smart companies should know that a large chunk of their value chain is knowledge work. For airplanes the danger of suddenly seeing a Boink 212 appearing on the market is probably quite low, but there certainly is engineering work to be done on planes, even if some of it won't see implementation for a long time. But long time strategy is probably not even a term in some companies.