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Re:Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving ... by talad on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @06:22AM (#15346354)
Meyer basically destroyed a healthy, but not growing, company in the span of 4 years through short-term number-massaging actions at the cost of their competent engineers and core product development.

Nadella isn't making a particularly strong case for MS either with his seeming distaste for any product of theirs that isn't either mobile or cloud-based (like the ones where they actually have a monopoly to build off and no competition worth speaking of), which seems to arise from that 'chasing growth numbers' mindset.

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Re:Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving ... by B1FF_PSUVM on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @06:50AM (#15346478)
Microsoft products? "Windows is a service" is the word now, as firmly stated by a recent message demanding a PC reboot.

(The first sentence was "Windows is a service and updates are a normal part of keeping it running smoothly.")

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Re:Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving ... by cat199 on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @08:18AM (#15346988)
to their "credit", this doesn't actually mean anything given the msft ability to misuse language consistently to make it sound more magical like
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Re:Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving ... by eip on Thursday September 28, 2017 @12:19PM (#15358338)
>Meyer basically destroyed a healthy, but not growing, company in the span of 4 years

So she did exactly what Google paid her to do. Eliminate a competitor.

How dumb do you have to be to hire a CEO from high in the ranks of your biggest rival?

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Re:Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving ... by crispytx on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @06:43AM (#15346452)
Yeah she was terrible. Their homepage still sucks, freezes up my browser all the time.
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Re:Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving ... by reacweb on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @09:03AM (#15347342)
I am not in America, but when she arrived, I was very curious to see how she could revived such a dying zombie. Clients and engineers were leaving as hell. IMHO, she has done a lot to reduce the hemorrhage and make it attractive again.
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Re:Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving ... by jonknee on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @11:10AM (#15348519)
> IMHO, she has done a lot to reduce the hemorrhage and make it attractive again.

What are you talking about? She's no longer employed and Yahoo has been sold off to Verizon...

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Re:Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving ... by reacweb on Thursday September 28, 2017 @04:15AM (#15355593)
I replied to the rewrite of history of yahoo, in particular that yahoo was healthy before Marissa Meyer arrived. IMHO, she had a positive effect on yahoo during her presence.
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