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by cturner 5320 days ago
Exactly. How many Dell-like companies have we seen die off over the last fifteen years because they were stuck in their ways. The PC companies that have survived are those that made it in to services work - HP, IBM, Dell. Oracle has worked hard to get into the sector. Plenty of names that come to mind for great-computer companies who got squashed - Compaq, Digital, Gateway, Olivetti, Sun, SGI.