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I kind of wonder if the endgame for all of this is one-product-per-company. The company comes into being to make widget x, and never cares / is able to make an
by m463 2y ago
I kind of wonder if the endgame for all of this is one-product-per-company.
The company comes into being to make widget x, and never cares / is able to make another product again.
I mean, that's kind of how it all happens anyway. The people who stick through things and make the thing go away anyway. the ip is then acquired.
- mikepurvis 2y agoThat seems like the current model in tech, to the point that companies are eventually renamed for their only product (RIM -> BlackBerry, Sun -> JAVA, dotCloud -> Docker), but there are also a few Asian megacorps that have their fingers in seemingly everything, think of Yamaha and Mitsubishi.
- wilsynet 2y agoI do not recall Sun being renamed into “Java”. It was acquired by Oracle as Sun Microsystems.
- pnp 2y agoCorrect, I recall the stock ticker symbol was renamed to JAVA, but not the company.
- mikepurvis 2y agoYes I should have clarified that that was stock ticker (or found another actual example).
- devchix 2y agoSun changed its stock ticker from SUNW to JAVA. It never mattered for a dying company. Solaris packages were named SUNWxxxx, and was never renamed.
- achenet 2y agoto my knowledge, Sun never actually made money off of Java, their main source of revenue was always selling hardware (indeed, one of the reasons Oracle bought them out was because Oracle was one of the biggest consumers of Sun's hardware).