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Maybe if you’re a boomer. We’ve gone through iterations: - for buying IBM - for buying Microsoft - for buying Oracle - for buying Cisco - for buying AWS
by asguy 4y ago
Maybe if you’re a boomer. We’ve gone through iterations:
- for buying IBM
- for buying Microsoft
- for buying Oracle
- for buying Cisco
- for buying AWS
… what’s next?
- rxhernandez 4y agoI was born in the 90s, been programming since I was 12 (nearly 20 years), and I've only ever heard IBM.
- Semaphor 4y agoDo you man the saying? Then yes, I agree. But using the saying in a way that people unfamiliar with it will (probably) understand it, I agree with OP.
- pabs3 4y ago> … what’s next? Open source?
- ben_w 4y agoIsn't that just our version of fusion? Despite constant developments (and a surprisingly large behind the scenes usage), it's been the tech of $time-delay into the future for at least 5 * $time-delay into the past?
- sph 4y agoOpen source is already running the software world (React, Go, Kubernetes, Git, Linux, the list is huge)
- ben_w 4y agoPlenty of real fusion in the world too. But even with the open source elements in Android and iOS, the gap between the promise and J. Average's experience (or even from the point of view of how many of us get paid to develop OSS rather than just use it) is that it might as well be Mr. Fusion from BTTF.
- sph 4y agoFusion will have already changed the world if it's very expensive and hard to build, and one can't build a fusion reactor in their backyard. This analogy is starting to stretch a little. Open-source desktop apps for my grandma are not widespread, but still, open-source runs the world because that's what all the software engineers use to build their closed-source applications. In the "no one fires you for buying IBM" quote, nobody was talking about Android applications, but business software. These days, no one fires you for buying Linux.
- ben_w 4y ago> Fusion will have already changed the world if it's very expensive and hard to build, and one can't build a fusion reactor in their backyard. The specific type of fusion reactor which people have built in their back yards already has commercial applications.
- fsckboy 4y ago… what’s next? people getting fired
- jagged-chisel 4y agonever. laid off. downsized. made redundant. never fired.
- fsckboy 4y ago"nobody ever got fired for laying subordinates off"
- dijit 4y agoKubernetes, probably, based on the mentality.
- ricardbejarano 4y agoCloudflare.
- nextstepguy 4y agobitcoin
- snowwrestler 4y agoThe current iteration is probably Google, specifically their office suite that comes with an SSO service. Are startups in the last ~ 5 years using anything else for email/docs/calendar? Microsoft maybe, but they are already on the list. :-)
- coldpie 4y agoI would definitely fire someone for buying Oracle.
- jagged-chisel 4y agonow. but not 30yrs ago.
- themerone 4y agoExcept for a ton of people at Nokia when they bet the brand on Windows Phone.