> Experimenting on or converting small projects into new markets?
Bringing MaximeVM out of research labs into the market as GraalVM.
First RDMS to support Perl and Java as stored procedures.
Join venture with Sun for Network Computer thin clients.
> Fleshing out OpenSolaris into a product that could rival linux?
Every OpenSolaris sales is one sale less from Unbreakable Linux, so in a day and age where UNIX === Linux, a company like Oracle has chosen what makes more sense monetarly.
I doubt that IBM is getting lots of new AIX customers.
And in the end, except for a timid offer from IBM, no one cared to rescue Sun.
Re:Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
by radicalbyte on Friday July 23, 2021 @02:28AM
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FANG would buy them if they had somehow managed to stumble forward to the mid-2010s.
Zero offers from any of them, so.
Re:Migrating Facebook to MySQL 8.0
by radicalbyte on Friday July 30, 2021 @04:28AM
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I don't think that FB were in a position back then. I was very surprised at the time that Google didn't buy them. Microsoft would never had gotten it past the regulators.
In Bryan's defense, the lawnmower rant is pretty true- they are a simple company. They focus heavily on making money and abandoning things they aren't in a good position to do so from.
Selling per-cpu-core licenses and support contracts, great! Experimenting on or converting small projects into new markets? Not great. Fleshing out OpenSolaris into a product that could rival linux? Dead end.
Maybe it could have worked out, but the lawnmower didn't care about a product that had too few users to make money from. OTOH, even Facebook uses MySQL... All they need to do is invest enough to maintain market share to get support contracts.