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Of course, but the question at that point becomes: How do you sustain those steady profits? DEC was hugely successful in its day, but was a failure in the 90s
by gnaffle 14y ago
Of course, but the question at that point becomes: How do you sustain those steady profits?
DEC was hugely successful in its day, but was a failure in the 90s because they couldn't manage the transition from minicomputers to PCs.
- einhverfr 14y agoBy creating stuff that people find useful. Also I am less convinced than others that Microsoft is flopping on everything. Azure is certainly a good start for example.
- nl 14y agoAzure is certainly a good start for example. Seriously? Azure is what - 4 years old? It's still yet to see significant adoption outside places that were already .NET/Windows shops. Until that happens it's little more than another defensive play by Microsoft attempting to protect Windows revenue. (Yes, I know it can run Linux VMs. Again - is anyone outside .NET shops using it?)
- ladzoppelin 14y agoApple is using Azure for ICloud which is pretty huge. http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/is-apple-really-using-windows-azure-to-power-icloud/9687 http://www.zdnet.com/blog/microsoft/is-apple-really-using-wi... The Vanity Fair article is almost identical to the articles released before Windows 7 came out in 2009 predicting the same kind of stuff than never comes true. Windows 8 has the potential to be a huge so I am sure these cookie cutter "MS is doomed" articles are going to be more prevalent as we get closer to release.
- einhverfr 14y agothere have been folks on the PostgreSQL lists talking about their experience with Azure running Linux/PostgreSQL.
- locusm 14y agoAny links - we had huge perf issues...