>>Another good example is IBM. Did they blow it by not becoming a leader in PC manufacture as they had been in mainframes?
>Their ROI looks pretty good right now and they got out of the business.
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>>One of the posts here pointed to a link (I wish I had saved the linkt) where a tech exec said:
>"We are on a burning platform"
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>>All of our platforms seem to be subject to burning now, so it's a good time to let things simmer down for a while and not chase things that might fit the classic depiction
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>+10 well said Bill!
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Are you really praising inertia?