It has worked terribly, software often live longer than organizations or can easily change hands. And then we get the absurd directory structures, where half th

It has worked terribly, software often live longer than organizations or can easily change hands. And then we get the absurd directory structures, where half the code lives in com/oldcompanyname and half in com/newcompanyname and related code can be far away. Even Sun went away and left nothing but a bunch of legacy package names.