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KBSez ✅

@briankrebs

LOL! Too big to fail?

Let me remind everyone of the global ruling DEC:

Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) was the most successful minicomputer firm in history. At its high point, it had multiple large campuses and amazing facilities, and even ran helicopters between them and to Logan Airport in Boston where they had their own gate. Their PDP and VAX series computers were crucial to the development of ARPANET and its evolution into the Internet.
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8 February at 16:58 | Wall-to-wall | Open on postchat.io
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KBSez ✅

@briankrebs
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It seemed impossible for DEC to vanish. But due to a series of market changes and poor decisions by management, they are now only a memory. Their productive period was about 30 years, from 1960 to 1990. This 30 year period is a not uncommon one for corporate arcs.

#Google is now 25 years old

Google and Facebook might be ruling to roost today but that’s not going to last no matter what anyone says

8 February at 16:59 | Open on postchat.io
Stuart Longland (VK4MSL)

@kbsez @briankrebs

It's not a universal rule though in tech that companies fail after 30 years…

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsof

> Founded April 4, 1975; 48 years ago

8 February at 23:20 | Open on mastodon.longlandclan.id.au
KBSez ✅

@stuartl @briankrebs

It is not BUT no company is safe from the market and mismanagement—- even international juggernauts and in many cases especially them.

9 February at 2:59 | Open on postchat.io
KBSez ✅

@stuartl @briankrebs

It is not BUT no company is safe from the market and mismanagement—- even international juggernauts and in many cases especially them.

9 February at 3:00 | Open on postchat.io
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