The Austext service today is still provided using the original 1970s technology.
The new buttstock became ten times stronger than the original due to advances in polymer technology since the early 1960s.
It will be in 1,760 feet of water, far deeper than would be feasible for a fixed platform or even the original tension-leg technology.
For StillSecure, the solution came from taking one element of the company's original technology and turning that into the main product.
They used "original" technology and as such were not upgradable.
Soon there's such an institutional investment in the original technology, no matter how flawed, that it's very hard to move on to something better.
A German manufacturer developed the original technology, and their use is predominantly in temperate climates.
That is to say, the Culmination possesses no original technology.
"We think competition is healthy, but competitors should create their own original technology, not steal ours."