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I often wonder which companies are Sun and Oracle this time around. Sun was doing a ton of revenue to companies with extremely marginal future prospects as the
by foobiekr 4y ago
I often wonder which companies are Sun and Oracle this time around. Sun was doing a ton of revenue to companies with extremely marginal future prospects as the dotcom took off.
Amazon perhaps, though they have successfully penetrated enterprises.
- jghn 4y agoYeah probably not Amazon. Sun already seemed a bit on the outside looking in at that point. It could potentially be Oracle. Sure they're in a stronger position than Sun was at that point but there's a similar aspect of having lost mindshare in terms of the go to product in their class.
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- ska 4y agoI think we have to be careful with some of this narrative being a bit too neat. I suspect Sun was walking dead long before the crash, and wouldn't have survived without an existential shift that it's not clear they were capable of making. The silly money in the dot-com run up just dragged the process out a bit by masking/hiding the crisis, but I don't think it's correct to say the crash is what killed them.