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the middle portion of the S-curve. By the end of the take-off
period, the technology has matured, and enters the final stage
of over-maturity or slow stagnation, shown here as the head of
the S-curve.
When one technology is maturing, a newer and
similar technology is fermenting underneath it. However, the
mature technology does not take notice of this newer
technology, because the newer technology is below the mature
and stagnating one in terms of technology adoption. What the
stagnating technology does not know is that the fermenting
technology is actually causing the genesis of a technology
disruption. In the following figure, Linux is shown to be
disrupting Sun Solaris:
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