A WSJ special report on Technology writes: “Digital technologies are upending the competitive balance across the corporate spectrum.”
It adds: “Safely profitable niches aren’t secure anymore. Longtime industry leaders are being forced to re-examine their basic ways of doing business. Upstarts are on the rise. And who will emerge victorious is anyone’s guess.”
A related story on Linux states: “As Linux grows, it not only stands to win lucrative parts of the server market before Microsoft, but it also threatens to lessen the value of the very software that Microsoft has built its empire on: Windows. It’s a challenge that finally has awakened the industry giant.”
