Posts Tagged with ‘acquisition’

One clear lesson from the dot-com era was about survival of the fittest; it didn’t matter how revolutionary the mutation, without the ability to survive, it became at best a footnote in history. Conversely, the ability to survive often brings unwanted baggage in the form of odd vestigial standards, as exemplified by the httpmail adopted by Hotmail when the rest of the email world runs either POP or IMAP. Workarounds do exist, from 3rd parties; yet the sheer size of [...]