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Larry always had a 10-year technical vision Is that harder to do now than back in the 1980s? The pace of technological development has accelerated, and it's so
by ilamont 9y ago
Larry always had a 10-year technical vision
Is that harder to do now than back in the 1980s? The pace of technological development has accelerated, and it's so hard to predict the standards and platforms and business needs that will arise 5 years from now, let alone 10.
- gtycomb 9y agoThose 1980's were quite messy too. Larry picked a robust solution (SQL) to build upon, something the market desperately needed and he somehow grasped it better in the smoke and noise of the day. Of course this is not the only ingredient for them to rise above the heap. The company I worked at that time was a Sybase shop and Sybase SQL performed so much better than Oracle then. An ability to sell aggressively, staying power in improving a good technical vision, etc. is also needed just as it is today.
- justherefortart 9y agoMy understanding was he just copied IBM's DB for a different platform, mimicking their API to the call.