Re:Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving ...
by tw04 on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @01:14PM
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See: DEC, Sun Microsystems. Engineering != Ability to make money. While none of us may like it, you almost always need a solid marketing and sales force to have a successful business.
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Re:Open-Sourcing Vespa, Yahoo’s Data Processing and Serving ...
by coredog64 on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @02:27PM
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Sun was making money, their problem was cash flow. Their primary customers were on Wall Street. They borrowed a bunch of money prior to the GFC, and right when they needed their Wall Street customers to be placing orders to cover payments on the debt, their customers were tightening their belts.