I just found it curious. If you look at these market leaders, you'll
find an eerie similarity in how their product lines incorporate
technology acquisition. The ability to subsume heterogeneous
technologies may indicate why these two have done so well (and one
might argue, the fear of dethronement as a cause to why they react so
bitterly to competition):
For a full rundown of cisco acquisitions visit
http://www.cisco.com/warp/public/750/acquisition/summarylist.html
For a full rundown of microsoft acquisitions visit
http://www.vcnet.com/bms/departments/catalog/yrcatalog.shtml
(microsoft doesn't seem to have their acquisition summary anywhere I
could find on their site.)
One could make similar statements about any other $BIG_COMPANY but I
believe there is no coincidence that market leaders succeed because
they can adapt new technologies and incorporate them successfully in
their product line.
Before people start leaping off the deep end of the Rational pool, I am
speaking as a cisco fan, not as a microsoft one.
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