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Yeah, because Microsoft and Apple are two companies that clearly failed while Sun and 37 Signals are clearly successful multi billion dollar businesses.
by boucher 16y ago
Yeah, because Microsoft and Apple are two companies that clearly failed while Sun and 37 Signals are clearly successful multi billion dollar businesses.
- gfodor 16y agoThe last sentence of the original post could very well be the most sarcastic post on the internet, if it was intended so.
- alttab 16y agoI really should start including the tags, shouldn't I?
- Aaronontheweb 16y agoYeah (sorry for down-voting you) - there are so many anti-propreitary rantings around here that it's hard to separate out the sarcastic people who acknowledge the objective reality from the standard propreitary always == bad!!!! kool-aid drinkers.
- jshen 16y agoOdd choice of comparison. I think linux has owned ms and apple on the server side. mysql is the dominant db for web apps, etc. If your metric of success is a company that makes money you are ignoring a large part of the world.
- sanderjd 16y agoJust depends on how you define "success" (although I think being acquired and gutted by Oracle is outside anyone's definition).