old-line
- s adhering to conservative or reactionary principles
- But the Net has brutalized old-line business across most industries retail, telecom, financial services and the technology industry itself, is, ironically, no .
- Chambers preaches that all voice and video will eventually migrate to an open, packet-switched system like that used by the Internet--at the expense of old-line equipment suppliers .
- In other words, old-line media outlets are like broadcast networks in an HBO world.