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> That assumes that the software business is efficient in the market sense, which my experience suggests is very much not true. On the contrary, I've found that
by ashtonkem 5y ago
> That assumes that the software business is efficient in the market sense, which my experience suggests is very much not true. On the contrary, I've found that success hinges primarily on the ability to find and execute good business deals (which is the work of executive team and/or sales&marketing). Software side has so much slack in it that it can (and often does) do extremely bad job at making the actual thing and still succeed.
I actually covered this in literally the next line.
- xpe 5y agoashtonkem: To quote what you wrote two sentences afterwards: > 1) Programming language quality is a non-factor in business success. What TeMPOral wrote (below) is is not quite the same in my view. First, they elaborate more. Second, there is a different argument: > Software side has so much slack in it that it can (and often does) do extremely bad job at making the actual thing and still succeed. Namely: it is NOT the case that software does not have a business effect. Rather, other aspects of the business have to work extra hard to compensate. To take a systems point of view: two systems can have the same output over some time period but very different internal efficiencies.