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Late Mover Advantage

The Agile Manager

By way of example, at the time the internet travel booking business had a take rate of somewhere between 5 and 10% of the value of the travel services they were selling; intermediaries had a take rate of a tiny fraction of a percent of the value of the product order they were submitting. They were in a state of mutually assured destruction.

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The Ultimate Guide to Open Source Databases

Percona

Their work produces higher-quality code and enables faster innovation, while maintaining high security standards. But vendor lock-in can occur, making a company susceptible to price hikes, paying for unnecessary technology, and being blocked from new technology that could be advantageous.