I Can’t Stop Winning

Re:I Can’t Stop Winning by jbotz on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @08:28PM (#20398159)

It's a curious fact that although of course humans are mortal, and in theory corporations aren't, in practice there are only a very tiny percentage of corporations that have outlasted a typical human lifespan. In fact the average lifespan of an SP&P 500 company is well under 20 years. Google it.

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Re:I Can’t Stop Winning by austhrow743 on Tuesday July 09, 2019 @11:16PM (#20398907)

I don't think that's all that relevant as a customer unless those SP&P 500 companies ending regularly involves their services being turned off suddenly without warning.

I imagine a lot of those companies ending is the result of acquisitions/mergers where the services continue uninterrupted and in the vast majority of cases where that isn't true, there's a warning that it will end.

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Re:I Can’t Stop Winning by icebraining on Wednesday July 10, 2019 @06:57AM (#20400780)

You can expect a warning.. unless their database gets overwritten and there are no backups! https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/09/01/02/1546214/why-mir...

(Granted, not an S&P500 company, but those have been known to fuck up as well)

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