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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