Unbundling

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Unbundling is the process of breaking up packages of products and services that were previously offered as a group, possibly even free. [1] [2] [3] Unbundling has been called "the great disruptor". [4]

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Etymology

"Unbundling" means the "process of breaking apart something into smaller parts." [5] In the context of mergers and acquisitions, unbundling refers to the "process by which a large company with several different lines of business retains one or more core businesses and sells off the remaining assets, product/service lines, divisions or subsidiaries." [6]

Examples

One of IBM's COBOL Compilers was "PP 5688-197 IBM COBOL for MVS and VM 1.2.0" which one IBMer described as

PP := "Program Product" aka "you pay for it"

. By contrast, the same source had: Neither the F or D versions of the COBOL compiler were ever "rented" ... (or) even copyrighted...
The majority of software packages written by IBM were available at no charge to IBM customers. (Even non-IBM customers could pay (only) for the reproduction costs and get them from IBM. All this changed, of course, with New World (June 1969), [9] but that didn't alter the status of products released prior to that date." [2] :this and other tidbits is from a Looking-Back blog article

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  9. otherwise known as Unbundling
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