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Only one way to find out! There's so much opportunity to improve the "non-sexy" work of governments and institutions and the interface between them and the peo
by wavefunction 9y ago
Only one way to find out! There's so much opportunity to improve the "non-sexy" work of governments and institutions and the interface between them and the people they help/serve/administer that it's crazy there isn't more start-up attention focused there.
- craftyguy 9y agoIn reality, there is very little realized opportunity to improve the 'non-sexy' work of governments and institutions, because you're up against either big names like Oracle or <insert official's nephew's name here>.
- wavefunction 9y agoI won't argue that Oracle isn't optimized to meet and take advantage of public institutional procurement policies but if you've ever seen one of Oracle's offerings, it's easy to surpass their quality and given their rates, trivial to come in cheaper. My mom was an instructor with the community college system in Colorado and about ten years back they rolled out an Oracle based-and-delivered student enrollment product that failed during its first enrollment after being deployed because it had been set up to only allow 100 concurrent connections to the state-wide persistence solution. Oracle was of course 'earning' something like $90,000 every day the outage continued despite it being their own direct fault. I can't stress enough how incompetent or over-priced Oracle solutions are for pretty much anyone.
- HeyLaughingBoy 9y agoLike wavefunction points out, only one way to find out. You'll never know unless you try.