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by jnbiche 2242 days ago
> this point could hire more mediocre talent and function in more of a maintenance mode and continue to be successful for a long time

Eh, not sure about that. IBM went downhill fairly quickly once they stopped getting the cream of the crop. Oracle was able to stave off problems for a while, but only because of the lock-in issue. Amazon doesn't have the benefit of lock-in (with the exception of some parts of AWS).