Comments on: Automotive News: Get Piggy http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/automotive-news-get-piggy/ The Truth About Cars is dedicated to providing candid, unbiased automobile reviews and the latest in auto industry news. Thu, 18 Mar 2010 05:33:59 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Landcrusher http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/automotive-news-get-piggy/comment-page-1/#comment-937831 Landcrusher Tue, 11 Nov 2008 04:33:40 +0000 http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=144852#comment-937831 Lapham is correct. I watched companies that were built on their relationships with tech partners, resellers, and consultants get into stupid turf wars when the tech boom dried up. Many of them are gone, or a mere shadow of their former selves today. Oracle survived quite well because of their dominant market position, but it would be even better off today had they not destroyed their reseller and consultant chain and thrown their hardware partners to the wolves. IBM was the main benefactor. Lapham is correct. I watched companies that were built on their relationships with tech partners, resellers, and consultants get into stupid turf wars when the tech boom dried up. Many of them are gone, or a mere shadow of their former selves today.

Oracle survived quite well because of their dominant market position, but it would be even better off today had they not destroyed their reseller and consultant chain and thrown their hardware partners to the wolves.

IBM was the main benefactor.

]]> By: ferrarimanf355 http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/automotive-news-get-piggy/comment-page-1/#comment-936271 ferrarimanf355 Mon, 10 Nov 2008 18:51:56 +0000 http://www.thetruthaboutcars.com/?p=144852#comment-936271 Lord of the Flies? More like Battle Royale, only Red Ink Rick drew a spork, and the Asian carmakers drew a BFG 9000, a Hammer of Dawn and a gravity gun. Lord of the Flies? More like Battle Royale, only Red Ink Rick drew a spork, and the Asian carmakers drew a BFG 9000, a Hammer of Dawn and a gravity gun.

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