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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by johannes1234321 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @03:18PM (#21063591)
They would lose a paying customer ;)

Looking at Microsoft's strategy I doubt they would care whether it runs on .Net or something else. They would look into integrating with Azure (lots of Linux) and GitHub (R-o-R) as well as SO Jobs with LinkedIn (Java(?))

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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by lucb1e on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @05:12PM (#21064691)
Well, that customer is paying those licenses from their own income. By acquiring $customer you can get all of their revenue and not just the part they currently spend on licenses.
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Re:Prashanth Chandrasekar Replacing Joel Spolsky as Stack Ov... by johannes1234321 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @06:03PM (#21065112)
True and I wasn't fully serious. But: Having SO as an external showcase has benefits for attracting other customers over "we use it on our site" A testimony from an internal customer is less valuable as I see more company politics over technical reasoning.
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