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He also completely ignores the notion of time. Compare the size of the companies relative to their founding date and your going to see the following: VMware 19
by malandrew 13y ago
He also completely ignores the notion of time. Compare the size of the companies relative to their founding date and your going to see the following:
VMware 1998
Microsoft 1975
Oracle 1977
Amazon 1994
RedHat 1993
At least two companies had a major head start and should be expected to be larger.
One doesn't sell software, it uses software (Amazon).
The remaining two are VMWare and Redhat and the success of either can be attributed to the birth of their markets.
The virtualization hardware mostly began with a commercial product and the commercial products were able to stay ahead by being better capitalized than any efforts to commoditize the product.
With the other market, server operating systems, Linux was already a community effort with several distros and you couldn't have exactly have even tried any other strategy than open source without completely alienating your early adopters and dying on the vine before getting to a minimum level of adopter.