From: bill.gunshannon@gmail.com

On 8/15/2025 8:40 AM, Simon Clubley wrote:
> On 2025-08-14, Arne Vajhøj  wrote:
>>
>> Given that Oracle is a software company with a market cap over 600 B$,
>> then I would think they know something about software engineering.
>>
>
> Size does not equal engineering skill.
>
> Anything from Microsoft over the last 25 years.
>
> Anything from Intel. x86 is a crap, power hungry architecture that
> should have been consigned to history. Intel just got very very lucky
> and we have all suffered since.

If you consider it lucky to be overtaken by another company for
their good and yours was only an unavoidable fluke.

>                                  For example, Motorola would have been
> a far better starting point.

Motorola was supposed to be the original starting point.

bill

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