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Re:Internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind by vishnugupta on Friday June 18, 2021 @02:58AM (#27548014)
> 2 is still pretty good for a lot of things though.

It doesn't stop at 2. When I left Amazon about a decade ago there were at least half a dozen digital money services/products. Each vertical (retail, 3-p retail, Kindle, Gaming etc.,) all had their own stored-value service managing a slightly different version of the same digital money (gift-card, merchant balance, game coins). The feature sets overlapped ~95%. It may well turn out alright for the company but if you are an engineer or manager tasked with building yet another such service it's no fun at all.

Re:Internal competition can often be the most dangerous kind by laurent92 on Friday June 18, 2021 @03:33PM (#27554010)
The finance industry has the 6-eye principle. Which is a problem when the average of eyes per person is 1.99.