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ggm ◴[] No.46188687[source]
Anyone recall IBM of the mainframe pre-PC days, and how different it was compared to post-redhat acquisition?

If you'd told me in 1987 DEC was going to disappear up it's own fundament and be absorbed by Compaq, and then HP I would have laughed you off the floor.

Or Sun be Oracle. And then Oracle try to morph into hyperscaler, and sort-of.. well existing Oracle customers aside, .. fail?

Companies change. Nintendo was a 19th century playing card manufacturer.

Kodak was a very innovative Photography related enterprise.

Xerox invented the workstation. So tell me where Xerox is now? "Xerox Holdings"

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1. astrange ◴[] No.46189280[source]
> Nintendo was a 19th century playing card manufacturer.

Still is one, just does other things too.