That was… prescient.
Oracle acquired Sun in 2009-2010 and notably Oracle is a software company that benefits from the commoditisation of hardware, unlike Sun.
Java byte code portability is great for Oracle, but was a strategic mistake for Sun.
Grove talks about six forces:
• Power vigor competence of competitors
• Power vigor competence of suppliers
• power vigor competence of customers
• Power vigor competence of potential competitors
• Force of complementors
(Lol why didn't I write down the sixth in my notes?)
And these are all super important for business analysis, but complements is somehow overlooked in casual study
That was… prescient.
Oracle acquired Sun in 2009-2010 and notably Oracle is a software company that benefits from the commoditisation of hardware, unlike Sun.
Java byte code portability is great for Oracle, but was a strategic mistake for Sun.