On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 5:10 PM, Michael B. Smith <mich...@smithcons.com> wrote: >> Google absorbs an app ... discontinues the original absorbed app. > > Yeah, well, Microsoft has certainly done this.
It's an effective business strategy. Although it tends to piss people off, so doing it a lot may cost an org more in goodwill than they really should be spending. (Problem there is, goodwill usually doesn't show up in the PHB's spreadsheet.) > Except for Hyper-V and Virtual PC/Server (maybe those too, but I’m not aware > of it) Microsoft bought up all the companies that produced its > virtualization technologies and the originals are history. IIRC, the Virtual PC product was bought from a third-party who, ironically, had previously been more well-known on the Mac platform. Hyper-V, I dunno. -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to listmana...@lyris.sunbeltsoftware.com with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
