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A tale of two dead companies

A tale of two dead companies

Posted May 3, 2007 7:01 UTC (Thu) by ebirdie (subscriber, #512)
Parent article: A tale of two dead companies

IT has had this "buy from market leaders, because they stay in business and as a sign of their superiority has market leadership" since ages.

Another clause has been "there isn't one, whose been fired because buying IBM".

But yes, proprietary vendors are shooting on their foot, when they have implemented more and more those product activation and registration services. Those services are a headache already without them being out of business. At least we did choose other product over another because of the hassles in activation and registration.


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