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What about Microsoft enterprise offerigs, oracle, salesforce? To me they also offer platforms, but they tend to mostly sell their own products on those.
by kfk 6y ago
What about Microsoft enterprise offerigs, oracle, salesforce? To me they also offer platforms, but they tend to mostly sell their own products on those.
- sameer_singh17 6y agoTo work out monetization options, we need to use a very specific definition for the term "platform" - https://medium.com/breadcrumb/the-platform-matrix-all-platforms-are-not-created-equal-f8c8b5100858 https://medium.com/breadcrumb/the-platform-matrix-all-platfo... Essentially, it is applicable to businesses that create cross-side network effects between developers and users. This includes Salesforce, but wouldn't include businesses that create developer tools or infrastructure for instance.