Conversely the partnerships of open source databases vendors including MySQL and others have created a strong alliance that has forced Microsoft's SQL Server database team to create customized connectors for these open source applications. Open source, first the subject of an encirclement strategy, is now implementing its own on Microsoft's operating system business. The Linux operating system is now pre-installed on many of the world's leading hardware manufacturers' laptops, desktop and server systems. The business development teams and strategies representing Linux have struck back at Microsoft with an encirclement strategy that started with Microsoft's OEM partners first and progressed to their enterprise, or large business customers. Bypass attack is a marketing strategy that concentrates on defining and attacking uncontested markets that competitors either have not yet discovered, or are so new and emerging that no one has found them yet. The concept of finding uncontested markets was defined by Kim & Mauborgne (2004) in their book, Blue Ocean Strategy. Inherent in the definition of new markets is the use of a bypass strategy on the part of incumbent market leaders who, according to the research completed (Kim, Mauborgne, 2004), have the advantage of finding new markets based on accumulated experience. The authors are quick to point out that finding uncontested markets has much more to do with the hard work of viewing customers' unmet needs from a different perspective than just price, availability, or features differentiation. In fact Kim & Mauborgne (2004) point out that a red ocean strategy is one that...
Their contention is that seeing the unmet needs of customers from an entirely fresh and often not-before-considered perspective can lead to successful bypass attacks.
Ocean Village is UK-based and is uses the differentiated experience of offering families the opportunity to define their own cruise itinerary (Kwortnik, 2006). There is freedom as to when passengers will eat, what they choose to participate in, and the concept focuses on breaking out of the mold of highly predictable and regimented cruise programs. The two remaining brands, P&O Cruises Australia and the Yachts of Seabourn, each have
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