The beginning of the end for two tech titans?
Egads. Microsoft offering $44 bil for Yahoo! eh? Smells an awful lot like desperation. Perhaps it’s not the same as the AOL/TW boondoggle as far as mismatching industries go, but it’s certainly a mismatched culture. As Kevin Dangoor notes:
Years ago, Microsoft bought HotMail. At the time, HotMail’s servers were all running FreeBSD. Somewhere along the way, the transitioned all of HotMail’s servers over to Windows.
I can’t wait. Google probably can’t either!
We need a way to start owning our own data, and soon. Later will be too late.
February 11th, 2008 at 11:33 am
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