单词 | unbundling |
释义 | unbundlingn. (The introduction of) a policy of separate charging for related items. ΘΚΠ society > computing and information technology > [noun] > charging policies unbundling1969 1969 Datamation 15 69/1 IBM ‘expects to make changes in the way it charges for and supports its data processing equipment’. The word for it is ‘unbundling’. 1971 E. F. Schoeters in B. de Ferranti Living with Computer viii. 72 These arguments are becoming academic in the light of separate pricing of hardware, software, support and staff training, commonly known by the unlovely name of ‘unbundling’. 1981 Economist 11 July 65/2 Independent Japanese software houses, helped by separate pricing (‘unbundling’) of software and hardware by computer makers, are starting to write their own packaged programmes. Draft additions 1993 Commerce. The splitting of a company or business conglomerate into its constituent businesses or assets. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > business affairs > a business or company > [noun] > formation of company > splitting or reorganization reconstruction1866 unbundling1977 1977 Fortune Aug. 114/1 Many countries believe that they can have the benefits provided by multinationals without having to let in the companies themselves. They think they can do this by a process of ‘unbundling’. 1981 Business Week 26 Jan. 70/3 The reason for this ‘vertical disintegration’ or ‘unbundling’..is that each company bears a smaller part of the capital investment burden. 1985 Computerworld 10 June 112/4 Anderson recalled a 1974 report, ‘The Unbundling of AT & T’, predicting..restructuring of the telecommunications industry. 1989 Times 10 Aug. 10/4 The semantic scholiasts at Lowe Bell Finance Ltd...argue that unbundling is not the same as asset stripping. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1993; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1969 |
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