>They never actually came out and said it in the article, but it sounds like the thing that shut down was just squeaking by and distracting their core, profitable, business.
I sure hope that is the case. The only other take-away I saw in that article was that they're so incompetent at management that they couldn't even clean up the organization of a profitable entity. That the management was just so bad its a better decision to kill the product than let it bumble around until it was no longer profitable.
Knowing when to pull the plug on a product is a key part of growing a company aimed at developing multiple products. We'll go through all the lessons learned over the next few weeks and reasons why we shut it down - keep checking back, lots of valuable info.
I sure hope that is the case. The only other take-away I saw in that article was that they're so incompetent at management that they couldn't even clean up the organization of a profitable entity. That the management was just so bad its a better decision to kill the product than let it bumble around until it was no longer profitable.