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Re:It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer by m0llusk on Thursday May 23, 2024 @07:32AM (#40453387)
That is not a good comparison. NeXT was far more than "a BSD". It was a whole bunch of frameworks, development tools, applications, and a hardened team that had already ported to several other architectures. BeOS was still mostly vision at that point.
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Re:It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer by sidewndr46 on Thursday May 23, 2024 @08:29AM (#40453885)
wasn't Next actually developed by the former CEO of Apple as well?
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Re:It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer by Bene592 on Thursday May 23, 2024 @12:07PM (#40456477)
Yes, Steve Jobs was CEO of Next when they got bought
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Re:It looks a lot like VMware just lost a 24,000-VM customer by sidewndr46 on Thursday May 23, 2024 @08:25PM (#40461546)
that seems like it had way more to do with the decision that anything technical. What the team at Next built is quite impressive as well, but the goal was to get Steve Jobs back.
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