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While technology can be abandoned due to an unfavourable design or poor implementation, abandoning a technology can happen for a variety of reasons. There are instances where products are phased out the market because they are no longer viable as business ventures, such as certain medical
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doped alloy as a replacement for the conventional implantation step in silicon semiconductor bipolar process. The technology was previously orphaned but was continued again by a small team at IBM so that it emerged as a leading product in the high-volume communications marketplace.
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Users of orphaned technologies must often make a choice continuing to use the technology, which may become harder to maintain over time, or switch to other supported technologies, possibly losing capabilities unique to the orphaned technology.
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Technologies orphaned due to failure on the part of their startup developers can be picked up by another investor. One example is Wink, an
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Some orphaned technologies do not suffer complete abandonment or obsolescence. For instance, there is the case of IBM's
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User Group, Symbolics Lisp Users' Group (now known as the Association of Lisp Users), and Newton Reference. The
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filed for bankruptcy. The platform, however, continued after it was purchased by another company, Flex.
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Ritter, Arthur; Hazelwood, Vikki; Valdevit, Antonio; Ascione, Alfred (2011).
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architecture processor, abandoned due to performance-related design issues.
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Request by Sibelius users for a Mosaic to Sibelius conversion application
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User groups often exist for specific orphaned technologies, such as The
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that have been abandoned by their original developers. As opposed to
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fired most of the development team, who were thereafter hired by
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users feared the application would be orphaned after its owners
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Sibelius Core Team Now at Steinberg, Building New Notation Tool
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and OpenGenera, were twice orphaned, as they were ported from
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Keeping Score: Spreadbury Speaks on Sibelius Team Transition
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Singh, Raminderpal; Oprysko, Modest; Harame, David (2004).
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Silicon Germanium: Technology, Modeling, and Design
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Index


Intel iAPX 432
computer technologies
deprecation
abandonware
software
hardware
Silicon Germanium
IoT technology
Quirky
Apple Lisa
Apple Newton PDA
Apple Classic Mac OS
m68k
PowerPC
Coleco ADAM
home computer
DEC Alpha
microprocessor
Finale (scorewriter)
music notation software
HyperCard
ICAD (KBE)
Javelin Software
LISP machines
Mattel Aquarius
Microsoft Bob
Mosaic notation program
Mark of the Unicorn
Open Music System

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