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Different starting points with Microsoft, database giant Oracle that vertical integration may well promote software sales, so 70 million purchase of the Sun. At present we do not know the wisdom of this acquisition. However, Oracle acquired from the Sun's Sparc chip, a large design team. Early Prediction of contrast with the outside world, Oracle does not dissolve the chip design team. Hard to imagine Larry Ellison (LarryEllison) is now something to do with the semiconductor.
HP is also not satisfied with the kinds of situation in the operating system. Last week, HP announced a 12 billion acquisition of Palm. Through the deal, Hewlett-Packard was more than just a smart phone manufacturer, still WebOS operating system, the system can be used in tablet PCs and smart mobile phones and other portable devices. HP Tablet PC will no longer rely on Microsoft's Windows operating system. At the same time, HP may re-design of the product.
Pendulum back and forth
The irony is that, IBM has been stripped of most of the vertical business. In 2004, IBM sold the PC business to China's Lenovo. While IBM continues to produce chips and software, but its principal business is the service - get horizontal development of the company's best product available to customers after integration. At the same time, HP surpass IBM as the world's largest computer company.
Industry cycle model
Industry cycle model
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This lesson is not the vertical one is better than horizontal. Cycle of vertical and horizontal reciprocating back and forth like a pendulum, but success depends on how each company's restructuring.
Importantly, companies need to find the right strategy and integration level. Enterprises need to understand that if they want to control their own destiny, should have those things; enterprises also need to understand that they should buy anything from others, because some of the things other people do better.
The driving force of the pendulum
Predicted cycle time is very important. Vertical and horizontal loop is usually accompanied by major changes in industry. PC era, the horizontal integration to enable Compaq to IBM PC clone, which interrupted the development of the industry vertical. Dell through direct online sales have impacted on the Compaq. With the era of smart phones, Motorola, Apple and Nokia mobile phone hardware company focused on the impact caused. The Tablet PC is such a driving force for the next cycle.
With large mergers and acquisitions continue to occur, the cycle industry will continue. Many companies have plenty of capital, they all hope that similar large-scale move to beat the rival chess game.
The next swing pendulum
Pendulum is a powerful driving force of capital strength of large companies, including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Intel, HP, IBM, Oracle and so on. Of course, they should be careful to avoid the Government's anti-monopoly investigation.
Entrepreneurs can take advantage of this trend, a venture capital company, and then was acquired for vertical development, but this strategy is often difficult to work. Small companies should focus on its upstream and downstream companies in order to determine whether their customers and suppliers may be acquired.
Trends in the vertical, we can guess the next an acquisition: the acquisition if the Apple Nvidia would happen then? Or HP's acquisition of AMD, Nintendo bought Broadcom, Facebook acquisitions Zynga ... ... If the deal becomes a reality, the world would be Great the same.
Why The Renewed Focus On Science And Technology Giant Chip
