Posted by
ryuzaki0
on from the what-happened-to-the-netwinder dept.
halo8 writes: "There is a story on the Ottawa Citizen about Rebel.Com - how they were private, went public during the tech boom, made millons, spent millons (buying james dean logo and rebel.com address). See part I and part II.
Re:Yet another failed .COM.
by
mmontour
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I feel no sympathy for these people.
I feel sorry for the Netwinder engineers. They had put together quite a nice little product, and there probably was a real market opportunity for it at the time (if they could have brought the unit cost down through increased production volume). Like the Amiga, however, there was just too much cluelessness at the top for the company to have any chance of succeeding.
And yes, at home I have both an Amiga (boxed up) and a Netwinder (running as a DNS/FTP/NTP server).
This is the last /. story before the world changed
by
Anonymous Coward
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I feel no sympathy for these people.
I feel sorry for the Netwinder engineers. They had put together quite a nice little product, and there probably was a real market opportunity for it at the time (if they could have brought the unit cost down through increased production volume). Like the Amiga, however, there was just too much cluelessness at the top for the company to have any chance of succeeding.
And yes, at home I have both an Amiga (boxed up) and a Netwinder (running as a DNS/FTP/NTP server).
Never again.
It's all different now.