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Are there modern figures to back up that 90% figure? It sounds a bit high. Surely it would be high, but these days so much software is for some website that i

• patio11 15y ago
  If anything, I think they're undershooting. Think of a non-tech company with a website. Anything. Chipotle, there. They have a website, online ordering, and a mobile app which actually does stuff. Do you think 90% of their code is customer visible? I really doubt it. They have code in the POS, code in the planning department, code in payroll, code in accounting, code in purchasing, code in site selection, code in accounts payable, code in marketing, code in... code in everything. This doesn't even code you need to raise the corn, to feed the pig, to deliver it to the slaughterhouse, to ship the carnitas to the store, etc. This is tangentially related to a post I hope to have up tomorrow. We live life swimming in an unseen sea of software.
  • sien 15y ago
    Perhaps. But the POS code is not written by Chipotle. For the company that wrote the POS it is customer facing as Chipotle are the customer. Similarly for much of the purchasing and other software they use internally. There would be considerable customisation though. It will be interesting to see you post.