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Do you think that Google, the startup of decades ago would have scaled as rapidly if they had to license Solaris and Oracle? Same question for Twitter and Faceb
by reedciccio 3y ago
Do you think that Google, the startup of decades ago would have scaled as rapidly if they had to license Solaris and Oracle? Same question for Twitter and Facebook without PHP and Ruby and MySQL and everything else they bootstrapped from?
- ThrowawayR2 3y agoObviously, yes. I just pointed out the dotcom boom companies as examples of that. Free server hardware would have helped Google, Twitter, Facebook, etc. to scale up faster too but they managed to grow just fine having to pay for servers. Their business models were so incredibly successful that they could have afforded to pay for software too without drastically lowering their growth.