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Worked for Microsoft for Decades, They also found a new way to apply that same model with 0365 and their continual effort to add new features that only cost a
by syshum 10y ago
Worked for Microsoft for Decades,
They also found a new way to apply that same model with 0365 and their continual effort to add new features that only cost a "few dollars more per user per month"
Squeezing locked in customers is the Enterprise Software way... all of them do it.
- fauigerzigerk 10y ago>Squeezing locked in customers is the Enterprise Software way No doubt about that, but for basic infrastructure like DBMSs the customer of the future will be another tech company. Try extracting the same margins for a database system from, say, Airbnb or Uber as from a mid-sized bank founded in 1888.
- cm2187 10y agoI bet the mid-sized bank founded in 1888 will still be around well after 80% of these tech companies failed...
- fauigerzigerk 10y agoBeing around isn't the same as growth though, and being around doesn't necessarily mean to run your own IT infrastructure either.
- syshum 10y agoI find this modern fixation on growth MBA's have forced upon the business world to be facinating Use to Stability, and Profitability not growth was important. Stability, and Profitability were the goal, growth followed but was not in itself a goal Now even if you are profitable, if you are not seeing growth then you failed. It is ridiculous.
- fauigerzigerk 10y agoI don't disagree in general, but Oracle is a tech company and technology has a particular function in our society that wasn't invented by MBAs. The role of technology is to drive productivity growth, which is ultimately the only thing that improves living standards (or at least has the potential to do so). A pizza sold in 1987 is just as useful as a pizza sold in 2017 measured by its nutritional value. But the same is not true of technologies from 1987.
- Spooky23 10y agoI'd argue for the Oracle growth drivers, things are much better than 1987, but only marginally better than 1999. These mega vendors drive co-dependency, not innovation.
- nitrogen 10y agoOracle's lockin doesn't just come from their database. There are also behemoth business/logistics/financial applications that exist only as PL/SQL packages and a bit of Java UI. Moving off Oracle Applications is a lot harder than switching databases.
- rodgerd 10y ago> Worked for Microsoft for Decades, Even at their most dominant, Microsoft kept adding things customers wanted. AD was a big leap forward for customers, when Microsoft could have rested on the domain model. SQL Server kept adding capabilities, Exchange, etc.
- syshum 10y agoAll designed around Vendor Lockin, then putting the screws to business with various and complex licensing CAL's for example would never be possible with out Vendor Lockin, What kind of extortion scheme do you have to have to sell a server licence then charge for every thing that wants to connect to the server.....
- tw04 10y agoCALs - you mean like literally every successful SaaS solution on the market today? CALs are alive and well and aren't EVER going to die. Salesforce.com? CAL. Openair? CAL. Workday? CAL. Etc. etc. etc.