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Yahoo could have been the next AWS if it hadn't been horribly mismanaged.

by weare138 3y ago

simonebrunozzi 3y ago
And tens of others: Sun Microsystems, even Google, etc.
- rrdharan 3y ago
  Could have been Google, Could have owned Google.. https://yourstory.com/2023/05/yahoos-billion-dollar-blunders-google-facebook-microsoft-netflix#:~:text=In%201998%2C%20Yahoo%20had%20the,potential%20of%20the%20search%20engine https://yourstory.com/2023/05/yahoos-billion-dollar-blunders....
  - quickthrower2 3y ago
    Could have plundered Google.
ramses0 3y ago
Maps. Groups. Upcoming/Local. Flickr. Tech was great, groundbreaking at the time (however, that had its own drag on velocity). Product "management" of anything post-acquisition was demonstrably atrocious.
neilk 3y ago
It definitely could not have done that. In the same year that Google had Borg, and AWS released EC2, at Yahoo, David Filo was still personally reviewing hardware requests.
- weare138 3y ago
  But like Amazon, Yahoo had developed scalable solutions in-house to run Yahoo. That was Amazon's motivation for launching AWS. They had already developed all these solutions for themselves and got the idea to monetize their infrastructure. I don't see why Yahoo couldn't have done the same thing. Plus Yahoo was sitting on Hadoop until it got spun off. And the kicker is Yahoo briefly started to offer enterprise big data solutions and even came up with a killer app that was years ahead of it's time called Pipes. But for some reason Yahoo just abandon everything. People tend to forget or are to young to know just how big and innovative Yahoo was at one time. I know this may sound strange if you're younger but Yahoo was literally the Google of their era. Yahoo was absolutely *massive* at their height.
  - pests 3y ago
    Pipes ouputting to a RSS or ATOM feed piped into Google Reader The technology of yesteryear, I miss it so.
  - quickthrower2 3y ago
    Pipes was awesome. My first intro to disappointing shutdowns.
  - deleted 3y ago
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Yahoo could have been the next AWS if it hadn't been horribly mismanaged.

simonebrunozzi 3y ago

And tens of others: Sun Microsystems, even Google, etc.

rrdharan 3y ago
Could have been Google, Could have owned Google.. https://yourstory.com/2023/05/yahoos-billion-dollar-blunders-google-facebook-microsoft-netflix#:~:text=In%201998%2C%20Yahoo%20had%20the,potential%20of%20the%20search%20engine https://yourstory.com/2023/05/yahoos-billion-dollar-blunders....
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  Could have plundered Google.

ramses0 3y ago

Maps. Groups. Upcoming/Local. Flickr. Tech was great, groundbreaking at the time (however, that had its own drag on velocity). Product "management" of anything post-acquisition was demonstrably atrocious.

neilk 3y ago

It definitely could not have done that. In the same year that Google had Borg, and AWS released EC2, at Yahoo, David Filo was still personally reviewing hardware requests.

weare138 3y ago
But like Amazon, Yahoo had developed scalable solutions in-house to run Yahoo. That was Amazon's motivation for launching AWS. They had already developed all these solutions for themselves and got the idea to monetize their infrastructure. I don't see why Yahoo couldn't have done the same thing. Plus Yahoo was sitting on Hadoop until it got spun off. And the kicker is Yahoo briefly started to offer enterprise big data solutions and even came up with a killer app that was years ahead of it's time called Pipes. But for some reason Yahoo just abandon everything. People tend to forget or are to young to know just how big and innovative Yahoo was at one time. I know this may sound strange if you're younger but Yahoo was literally the Google of their era. Yahoo was absolutely *massive* at their height.
- pests 3y ago
  Pipes ouputting to a RSS or ATOM feed piped into Google Reader The technology of yesteryear, I miss it so.
- quickthrower2 3y ago
  Pipes was awesome. My first intro to disappointing shutdowns.
- deleted 3y ago
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