Re: Innovation is purchased
Some more acquisitions that turned into multi billion dollar LOBs post acquisition.
VMWare
XtremIO
Data General
Kalpana
and a new one,
Solidfire.
Large companies buy, integrate distribute and support with incremental improvements on existing tech.
Small companies, startups, innovate and create--and take all the risk for failure with investor capital. I think it's a good model that works pretty well all in all.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
