> It's a shame that Rethink did so many things right and failed as a company while Mongo continues to do almost everything wrong as a company and still gets business.
This seems to be more the rule than the exception, doesn't it?
It's even not that hard to come up with explanations for this, main one certainly being that popularity depends essentially upon simplicity.
And simplicity might not even be economically as inept as we would like it to be. Indeed, since only a small minority of all the systems that are designed reach production and stay there for long then it can make sense to use the quickest piece of junk available, at least until proven it will stick.
This seems to be more the rule than the exception, doesn't it?
It's even not that hard to come up with explanations for this, main one certainly being that popularity depends essentially upon simplicity.
And simplicity might not even be economically as inept as we would like it to be. Indeed, since only a small minority of all the systems that are designed reach production and stay there for long then it can make sense to use the quickest piece of junk available, at least until proven it will stick.