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Rising Tide Rents and Robber Baron Rents

O'Reilly

Patents—exclusive, government-granted rights intended to encourage innovation—protect pharmaceutical companies from competition and allow them to charge high prices. They are a price that we pay for a rising tide of innovation. What Is Economic Rent? For example, consider drug pricing. But not all rents represent abuse of power.

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Dynatrace lists on the NYSE

Dynatrace

This is a company driven by the spirit of innovation and a commitment to customer success. From our origins in 2005, we quickly established ourselves as a leader in APM. We are always looking ahead to anticipate the needs of our customers to ensure that Dynatrace is exceeding their expectations and fuelling growth and success for all.

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A Clash of Mindsets: When New Products Depend on Existing Products

Strategic Tech

The Nature of Evolution New innovations often become the platform for future innovations. Google Maps started life in 2005 as a desktop application for getting from point A to point B. Since then, Google Maps has become the foundation for many other innovations after being opened up to developers via APIs.

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SQL Server I/O Basics Chapter #2

SQL Server According to Bob

​​ With new ​​ innovations ​​ come ​​ new terms, designs, ​​ and ​​ algorithms.

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Why Waits Alone Are Not Enough

SQL Performance

Waits and Queues has been used as a SQL Server performance tuning methodology since Tom Davidson published the above article as well as the well-known SQL Server 2005 Waits and Queues whitepaper in 2006. Tom Davidson, Opening Microsoft's Performance-Tuning Toolbox SQL Server Pro Magazine, December 2003.

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Are Microservices to Ecosystems as Core Competencies were to Conglomerates?

The Agile Manager

The thinking was that by owning the supply chain from raw materials to retail outlets, a firm had direct control over its entire cost structure, making it better able to squeeze efficiencies out of it and being less susceptible to supply shocks. It separates a legacy and risk-averse tech culture from a cutting-edge risk-prone one.

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Data Mining Problems in Retail

Highly Scalable

More specifically, the article was inspired by three major case studies from Albert Heijn [KOK07], the largest supermarket chain in the Netherlands, Zara [CA12], an international apparel retailer, and RueLaLa [JH14], an innovative online fashion retailer. Jain, 2005. JZ10] Recommender Systems: An Introduction, D. Jannach, M.

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