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The 10X rule of thumb holds in many areas where you have to overcome existing sunk cost, large market inertia, or a network effect. I’d say it also holds for o
by api 5y ago
The 10X rule of thumb holds in many areas where you have to overcome existing sunk cost, large market inertia, or a network effect.
I’d say it also holds for operating systems, network protocols, core tooling, etc.
The thing improved 10X might vary though, and for any niche there may be more than one thing that can be improved. Linux for instance displaced Windows NT by being both cheaper (technically free) and radically more flexible.
- michaelcampbell 5y agoI wonder if this metric would be expressed as 12x better if we'd had 6 fingers. Not that it matters, just idle mindless rumination.
- tlrss 5y agoIt would probably still be written "10x", just in base-twelve!
- pjmlp 5y agoWith the help from IBM, Dell and Oracle's money. And even it now sees competition from other POSIX platforms for IoT, with more business friendly licensing. It isn't going away, but now there is more free beer alternatives for UNIX folks that don't want GPL kernels.