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Quadibloc <jsa...@ecn.ab.ca> writes:

> On Thursday, February 1, 2018 at 6:07:52 PM UTC-7, han...@bbs.cpcn.com
> wrote:

>> "Xerox is the poster child for monopoly technology businesses that cannot
>> make the transition to a new generation of technology," said David B.
>> Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School.

> I suppose that Xerox could, for example, have used some of the technology it
> had in its early laser printers like the 9700, and made a laser printer that
> was almost as cheap as the HP LaserJet, but which produced better quality
> output.

> Presumably it was still selling faster and more expensive laser printers to
> corporate customers, and didn't want to undermine the market.

> IBM, then, is perhaps an example of a company that protected its legacy
> mainframe business while not allowing that protection to prevent it from
> making money from other markets. Perhaps. But perhaps it just lucked out with
> the IBM PC, and in general it made the same mistakes Xerox did most of the
> time.

Then there's that whole "take IBM on head to head inthe computer market" which
cost Xerox dearly in the 1970s.  No corporation can sustain the kind of loss
which Xerox did and remain top dog in its core industry.

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