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hnlmorg • yesterday at 11:14 PM • 1 reply • view on HN

So was Oracle and Microsoft Windows.

If history has taught us anything. It’s that the measure of a successful product is usually more to do with its sales people.


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bluGill • today at 12:49 AM

Or perhaps the lack thereof if you are one of the unsuccessful companies. In the 90s, I worked for a company that competed with Cisco I worked for a company that competed with Cisco. story was in the mid 80s an executive went to Silicon Valley. His report was that Cisco was a bunch of nobodies that would never go anywhere, which they'd go down the street and buy Vitalink instead. You have heard of Cisco and not Vitalink for a reason.