Re: [Nolug] world ends, MySQL bought by SUN

From: Jeremy (mailing list box) <listbox_at_unix-boy.com>
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:43:23 -0600
Message-ID: <478EDCEB.903@unix-boy.com>

Jerry Rushe wrote:
> Pray-tell,
> When has any smaller company been *absorbed* by a larger corporation and
> the result been anything but ending in tears for the layman?
>

Yeah, my favorite example is Digital being bought by Compaq... And
then Compaq being bought by HP. Sealed the fate of Tru64, VMS and the
Alpha platform (which I will still argue is better than anything
available today, except maybe the newest Power series processors from IBM).

Jeremy
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