Gurley notes early internet startups shifted from 100% Oracle and Sun to Linux and MySQL in five years.
“Every single fucking one of them were running on Oracle and Sun. And five years later, they were all running on Linux and MySQL, like in five years.”
Gurley predicts AI will shift from innovation to optimization like dot-com era Oracle-to-Linux migration.
“So there were you went from a period of innovation to a period of optimization where people are much more worried about cost.”