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Re:Memory Leaks Detection Paper Co-Authored by Netflix CEO R... by znkynz on Sunday December 04, 2022 @08:46PM (#33860370)
Do you consider Amazon a tech company prior to AWS product launch?
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Re:Memory Leaks Detection Paper Co-Authored by Netflix CEO R... by cjglo on Sunday December 04, 2022 @09:42PM (#33860788)
It was an online website right around the dot com bubble.

It definitely was a tech company by that time’s standards.

Nowadays every company has an online store, but that was not the case when Amazon was selling books online that you usually had to go to a store for.

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Re:Memory Leaks Detection Paper Co-Authored by Netflix CEO R... by chx on Sunday December 04, 2022 @10:14PM (#33861026)
> It was an online website right around the dot com bubble.

Much sooner than that.

Amazon started in 1995. Not a lot of ecommerce websites existed then. One the earlier ones is Powell's Books which started selling in 1993 via telnet, in 1994 via web.

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Re:Memory Leaks Detection Paper Co-Authored by Netflix CEO R... by jm20 on Sunday December 04, 2022 @10:20PM (#33861050)
Amazon made web-based book selling mainstream. Emphasis on web. Of course it was a tech company.
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Re:Memory Leaks Detection Paper Co-Authored by Netflix CEO R... by xwolfi on Sunday December 04, 2022 @11:15PM (#33861384)
And the web based dvd rental then ? I mean, they were doing exactly the same as Amazon, why distinguish?
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Re:Memory Leaks Detection Paper Co-Authored by Netflix CEO R... by gardenhedge on Monday December 05, 2022 @04:52AM (#33863495)
Banks have online customer sites. Are they tech companies?
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Re:Memory Leaks Detection Paper Co-Authored by Netflix CEO R... by WastingMyTime89 on Monday December 05, 2022 @05:57AM (#33863960)
If they did it when Amazon started their web store they would be.

How do you think Amazon infra gave birth to AWS? Does that sound to you like something a retail company would do?

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Re:Memory Leaks Detection Paper Co-Authored by Netflix CEO R... by Throw10987 on Monday December 05, 2022 @06:19AM (#33864114)
Banks are tech companies, the business leadership just don't know it.
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Re:Memory Leaks Detection Paper Co-Authored by Netflix CEO R... by gpderetta on Monday December 05, 2022 @06:56AM (#33864398)
The business leadership of some banks do in fact know it.
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