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The significance of this to me is by contrast to most of the valley companies (FAANG and their offshoots). Over the last 20+ years, people have been trying to
by w10-1 2y ago
The significance of this to me is by contrast to most of the valley companies (FAANG and their offshoots). Over the last 20+ years, people have been trying to build a mission-oriented company with a great culture, and confident enough to build their own tools. That was the default story.
It turns out companies are transient or have been internally infiltrated by such (outsourcing- and ambition-driven) politics that any mission is more supplement than reality, and there's no sense of controlling your own destiny.
So perhaps the dream persists out in the tech boonies in the ultra-sticky EHR domain, goosed by the Obama/insurance mandates to digitize, where developers are trapped by unportable skills. (Or perhaps in smaller B2B companies filling a niche.)
- robertclaus 2y agoI would say Judy is far too pragmatic to fall into the bucket of late 90's silicon valley startups. For example, people talk a lot about MUMPS being so quirky for the Epic operational database, but few people mention that Epic is a heavy Microsoft shop and ALSO provides a reporting SQL data warehouse built on SQLServer.
- shigawire 2y agoIf you said they were using a NoSQL database since the 70s, HN would think it was cool.