How Engineering Companies End
From Slashdot Developers Story | Slow Oracle Merger Leads To Outflow of Sun Projects, Coders
Re:Huh? (Score:5, Interesting)
by sunderland56 (621843) on Thursday September 03 2009, @02:48PM (#29302835)
Normally, silicon valley companies end like this:
- As the company grows, management makes engineering work on boring projects and support issues
- The top-tier engineers jump ship to newer, smaller companies for more interesting work
- The company limps along for a while with second-tier engineering
- The shell of the former company fades into oblivion and/or is bought out
- The new, exciting companies everyone went to become larger and more successful than the original
For example, SGI may have died, but nVidia and Mozilla (to name only two) are doing quite well, thanks.
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