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"pg makes the same recommendation (go into enterprise) for those who do not think they are smart or driven enough to build consumer web applications." what make

by bigbang 19y ago

"pg makes the same recommendation (go into enterprise) for those who do not think they are smart or driven enough to build consumer web applications." what makes u think that enterprise stuff doesnt need smartness? vmware? oracle? fwiw, ppl go where the money is and/or where the barrier is low, not where its smarter. for enterprise barrier is too high to get customers or even your customers are evry limited and you have to spend lots of time building your product unlike in web where there are lots of "platforms" like ror,adsense etc etc.

strlen 19y ago
enterprise can benefit greatly from smartness (which is why vmware is such a success story). but more than just a smart idea, enterprise requires perseverance and a longer term commitment (you can't just quickly build a site and see if it floats or sinks in the next n months). for a consumer application, you have to offer something of immediate value (whether through a technological advance or not) or you have to heavily market it. no matter how long your commitment is to an idea, if it can't be marketed or isn't viral it won't catch on (versus with enterprise, where you are working with few high-value clients until you develop a product to match their needs / you build up a client base).
nostrademons 19y ago
A bunch of my friends were early VMWare customers (1999/2000). They were almost totally a consumer/small business company then. VMWare Workstation was their first product, and they only got into server virtualization and enterprise solutions after the dot-com recovery, when folks realized "Hey, our servers are sitting idle most of the time, let's put a bunch of additional virtual servers on it." They've followed the path of many, many other successful disruptive innovations. They come out with something that's innovative & technically hard, release it as a low-margin consumer product, and then gradually move up-margin into enterprise systems as their product gets better & more widely known.

by bigbang 19y ago

strlen 19y ago

enterprise can benefit greatly from smartness (which is why vmware is such a success story). but more than just a smart idea, enterprise requires perseverance and a longer term commitment (you can't just quickly build a site and see if it floats or sinks in the next n months). for a consumer application, you have to offer something of immediate value (whether through a technological advance or not) or you have to heavily market it. no matter how long your commitment is to an idea, if it can't be marketed or isn't viral it won't catch on (versus with enterprise, where you are working with few high-value clients until you develop a product to match their needs / you build up a client base).

nostrademons 19y ago

A bunch of my friends were early VMWare customers (1999/2000). They were almost totally a consumer/small business company then. VMWare Workstation was their first product, and they only got into server virtualization and enterprise solutions after the dot-com recovery, when folks realized "Hey, our servers are sitting idle most of the time, let's put a bunch of additional virtual servers on it." They've followed the path of many, many other successful disruptive innovations. They come out with something that's innovative & technically hard, release it as a low-margin consumer product, and then gradually move up-margin into enterprise systems as their product gets better & more widely known.