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What a strange article - a discussion of Walmart's ecommerce technology without a single mention of its jet.com acquisition, which had over 1,000 employees in 2
by aodin 8y ago
What a strange article - a discussion of Walmart's ecommerce technology without a single mention of its jet.com acquisition, which had over 1,000 employees in 2016 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jet.com)?
The article is not praiseworthy enough to be a PR plant, and it lacks any substance from insiders. Seems to be tea leaf reading more than anything.
I'd also add that the acquisition cost of Flipkart was largely driven by direct competition with Amazon during the bidding process.
- giancarlostoro 8y agoI was thinking the same thing, though I think Walmart is miss-interpreted they are not stuck behind the times when it comes to technology. In fact much like PayPal their infrastructure runs on Node (that way the front-end and back-end code is not so diversified). Now I know some people dislike NodeJS, but I hold the belief that programming language is irrelevant if you can be effective with it, and I noticed PayPal got much faster / stable after they switched to NodeJS, so JavaScript in back-end enterprise seems pretty damn effective. Now if only we could just stop treating Walmart like an old lady who needs hand holding when doing technology and see their acquisitions as more than acquihires and more as investments...
- dunpeal 8y ago> The article is not praiseworthy enough to be a PR plant, and it lacks any substance from insiders. Seems to be tea leaf reading more than anything. So par-the-course for "internet journalism".