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I am not advocating for the company but it might be something like this; Handling of same amount of users comparing to their competitors with a software stack
by whizzkid 8y ago
I am not advocating for the company but it might be something like this;
Handling of same amount of users comparing to their competitors with a software stack that requires %70 less employees to run will give them enough room to lower their product price comparing to others. Imagine If they can keep it this way X number of years, then they will be able to eliminate their competition.
- elcritch 8y agoNot just the cost, but often the complexity reduction in team communication overhead can mean improvements in the ability to add features and services quickly. Financial arenas deal with a lot of events that need to be processed quickly with complex data transformation requirements that change quarterly in many cases.
- Consultant32452 8y agoMinimizing costs like this is most important for commodity software with lots of similar competitors. I think the real answer will vary greatly from company to company and market to market. Generally, I would recommend companies be careful to not think they're all that special. Special companies/products/markets may require special tools, but 99% of companies should pick the most mainstream tools available: Java, .net, c/c++, etc.
- hopler 8y agoDeveloper maintence time is not the marginal cost/priced of software. Software has low marginal cost to the economics is all about scaling up sales, and your tech stack is mostly binary: the job is either possible or impossible. developer cost within a factor of 10x is irrelevant.