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Forgetting everything else, I would imagine that the TC50 winner would be a company with a much more innovative idea than Twitter for the 'enterprise'. (Not to
by sabat 18y ago
Forgetting everything else, I would imagine that the TC50 winner would be a company with a much more innovative idea than Twitter for the 'enterprise'.
(Not to mention: 'enterprise' budgets are under severe constraint these days, so getting money to pay for a Twitter clone is unlikely.)
- jmacd 18y agoSure, IT budgets are growing more slowly than they used to, but they are still bigger than they have ever been. The idea that 1$/user/month is outside an "enterprise" budget is laughable. Stop making things up.
- aneesh 18y ago> "The idea that 1$/user/month is outside an "enterprise" budget is laughable." So is the idea that Fortune 500 companies would let data like this be in the cloud.
- jmacd 18y agoYeah,. Agree., even if I wish it wasn't the case. I have been seeing a lot of cool thinking on how The Cloud can go private for these orgs. In a way, that has started. A lot of software providers (including us) will sell a VM image that can be loaded up and moved around as needed (to provision more hardware). It seems like a baby-step.
- sabat 18y agoI'm not making things up; I work in an 'enterprise'. (And I still dislike that term.) $1/user/month in a 40,000-person enterprise (smaller than, say, Oracle) would be $480,000/year, not a trivial sum to get in the current climate.
- ryanwaggoner 18y agoThat presumes that every person in the organization signs up. Actual adoption is likely to be far lower.
- jmacd 18y agoThis also assumes that an organization that big would ever even consider paying the going-rate for a piece of software. Now way. They also would never thrown down their credit card for a 40k/month expense.