Re:Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses
by castell on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @09:24AM
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Exactly. Yahoo had the largest Hadoop cluster in 2009. They used it for their search engine. They were the driving force and sponsor of Apache projects like Lucene and Hadoop. Then suddenly they outsourced their search engine business to Microsoft Bing. Last time I checked meta search engines like DuckDuckGo rely on Yahoo's BOSS API to access Bing's search engine.
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Re:Yahoo to Spin Off Its Core Businesses
by sirkneeland on Wednesday December 09, 2015 @11:41AM
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Outsourcing the software heart of your business to Microsoft is a surefire win. Just look at how well Nokia did when they outsourced their phone OS business to Windows Phone.
(I do wonder if iterations of this pattern panned out better when paired with not-Microsoft)