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Further, enterprise software often has less than a dozen customers. If you work on Word, you have millions of people paying a little bit of money, but that adds
by ebiester 16y ago
Further, enterprise software often has less than a dozen customers. If you work on Word, you have millions of people paying a little bit of money, but that adds up to a large budget. An enterprise system with ten customers paying a million a piece? That's only a 10 million dollar budget. Further, each of those customers need slightly different applications to fit their business models. It's ugly, even with good architects.
The money just doesn't exist to obsess over UI in these products.
- ebiester 16y agoAnd yes, there's huge opportunity here for someone who figures out how to overcome this problem in multiple ways: 1. Someone who develops a uniform beautiful interface and a great development kit. ExtJS is on its way. 2. Someone who figures out how to solve that 10-very-close-but-not-quite appplication problem in a more elegant way than spring.
- protomyth 16y agoYou still need to spend a lot of money on lawyers and accountants to get the local and international laws correct.