Although both firms say the deal will create financial synergies and broaden their customer base, the practical advantages for McKesson in gaining access to information systems are more obvious than HBOC's rewards (although investors are sceptical of these McKesson's shares also fell after the deal).
"Both our IT experience and our IT customer base become key advantages in a competitive market," a representative for LogMeIn explained, while detailing these figures.
But with its large customer base, it has a distinct advantage.
Because of regulatory quirks most did not go overseas until the 1960s, and despite the huge advantage of their customer base at home few were able to maintain the global presence they had aspired to.HSBC's Mr Geoghegan moved to Hong Kong in early 2010.
The world of business needs more than ever to change its focus, we no longer have businesses that have utilised first mover advantage to build a defendable customer base, we live in the age of insurgents, who use last mover advantage to deploy the latest, best and cheapest technology, who take advantage of new behaviours.
First, South Africa is a relatively small country without the advantage of a huge domestic customer base.
The novel approaches to building businesses, with a premium on "first mover advantage" and amassing a big customer base regardless of how much debt it produced, are history.
Amazon said it is helping small online businesses stay afloat by allowing them to sell on Amazon, through its Marketplace program, and take advantage of Amazon's large customer base, technology and marketing.
Hardware has the advantage of building slowly a customer base of people paying hard dollars.
This intelligence advantage must then tie to a product innovation advantage that is directly correlated with a user or customer acquisition advantage and ultimately with an advantage in the size of its user or customer base.
