In the past few years, it has closed down under-performing and non-core sites like social bookmarking service Delicious, search engine AltaVista, online news aggregator Buzz, and social network MyBlogLog.
Overall, the group feels that AMD has at least closed the gap a bit on Intel's Core juggernaut with a much better FX offering this time around, but overall the desktop CPU landscape remains unchanged -- with Intel still firmly at the top of the heap.
It stands in contrast to the closed or proprietary systems of Microsoft and Apple who restrict access to the core or source code for their operating systems.
If Polycom is successful, branching into mobile video chat should help its core conferencing business and strengthen its bid to be the technology that links other, closed networks.