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slashdev on Dec 18, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: A Failed SaaS Postmortem

Google (search), Microsoft (OS, especially early on), Dreamworks (rendering, animation), Oracle (database, early on before OSS database got good).

It's the exception, not the rule though.

powowow on Dec 18, 2019 [–]

Microsoft licensed their early OS. Dreamworks led with SKG and the tech followed. Oracle always had meaningful tech competition and fought with sales/marketing.

Google is pretty true, though.

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