Scribd originally debuted iPaper in February 2008, after deciding that the existing Flash Paper viewer developed by Adobe didn't perform well enough or offer enough features to keep up with the quickly growing service.
In addition, many officials were unsettled by a report by Public Citizen, an environmental group, saying that Con Edison, which bought new steam generators 12 years ago, had originally considered replacing its steam generators in 1993 before deciding that the existing ones would be good until 2004.
Moody's had decided that the existing ratings of the banking industry were too high.
With so many programmers working on it, building Linux is incredibly complicated, and by 2005, Torvalds and his team had decided that the existing version-control systems were inadequate.
For six months, he said, there was a "Ping Pong game" of lawyers' letters back and forth until, separately, the Constitutional Court there decided that the existing rules governing data retention, beyond those required for billing and logistics, were illegal.
For Appixia, which was apparently in the midst of its first funding round when it began discussions with Wix, co-founder and CEO Yigael Berger said that the team decided that the existing synergies and opportunity to reach 40 million-plus were too appealing to pass up.
After the test, it was decided that the existing deck armor on battleships was inadequate, and that future battleships should be fitted with triple bottoms.
Shortly after they were ordered the Admiralty Board realized that the specified 4.5 inches armor would be outclassed by the latest rifled gun and decided that the existing armor would be reinforced by an additional 1 inch armor plate and additional wooden backing inside the existing armor.
Assuming Birnbaum's argument is true, and that Johansson investigated the veracity of this claim, a movie star can ethically decide that maintaining the existing work environment is a lesser evil.
Over the weekend, Australia managed to produce something that hasnt happened down under for 70 years, a hung parliament. Australian voters, in the tightest election since World War II, have responded to the national election campaign by deciding that no existing political party shall have a national mandate to govern.
Two neighbouring councils in North Yorkshire have agreed to "separate" some existing services after deciding that the arrangement wasn't working.
