Orphaned technology

[1] There are instances where products are phased out of the market because they are no longer viable as business ventures, such as certain medical technologies.

The technology was previously orphaned but was continued again by a small team at IBM so that it emerged as a leading product in the high-volume communications marketplace.

[3] Technologies orphaned due to failure on the part of their startup developers can be picked up by another investor.

One example is Wink, an IoT technology orphaned when its parent company Quirky filed for bankruptcy.

[10] The Save Sibelius group sprang into existence because Sibelius (scorewriter) users feared the application would be orphaned after its owners Avid Tech fired most of the development team, who were thereafter hired by Steinberg to develop the competing product, Dorico.