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May be we have different ideas of what constitutes working out well, I wouldn't have considered the subsequent failure and acquisition of Compaq and Sun to be
by stonemetal 15y ago
May be we have different ideas of what constitutes working out well, I wouldn't have considered the subsequent failure and acquisition of Compaq and Sun to be good outcomes.
- nl 15y agosubsequent failure and acquisition of Compaq and Sun to be good outcomes I don't understand what you mean. Compaq and Sun were struggling prior to being taken over, not afterwards. I'm more familiar with the case of Sun, but in that case some kind of take over was what all the shareholders were hoping for. The employees and many in the tech industry might have preferred a different buyer.
- stonemetal 15y agoCompaq bought DEC, got into trouble and got bought by HP. It was a fairly short time line between rescuing DEC and needing their own rescue. How is that a good out come? I am not saying buying DEC brought them down but it certainly didn't save them from impending doom. As far as Sun goes there is a much longer time line between the Netscape purchase and there own, but the way Sun fell apart until its eventual purchase isn't what I would call a paragon of success.