Being tweened goes with the territory of having once been a classic Rule-Breaking stock. Coca-Cola was once tweened by Pepsi. Cisco was tweened by 3Com. Intel was tweened by Advanced Micro Devices. And that's life in the public markets.
Replication is just part of the natural process of running a successful business.
As companies ascend to the dominant position in their markets, as their business model is confirmed by consumers, copycats of all sizes creep up to chew away at their profits. How well the leaders respond to this mimicry helps to guide the market's evaluation of their business in the decade ahead. Netscape's Performance Graph . AOL is up more than 300 times in value since its initial public offering in 1992. What the search engine does have is pretty extraordinary.