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PG: I laughed along with most everyone else at Startup School after your line about (paraphrasing) "if you're not smart then develop enterprise software, since
by mattculbreth 20y ago
PG: I laughed along with most everyone else at Startup School after your line about (paraphrasing) "if you're not smart then develop enterprise software, since it's a sales business, not a technology business."
Good one, and definitely some truth. I've spent a bit of time in this field and there's certainly the boring factor with some of it.
However--I'm assuming you'd find it interesting if people took a traditional piece of "enterprise software" (big suites sold to big companies, I guess) and Web 2.0-ified it.
Any comment there?
- dpapathanasiou 20y agoBoth Zimbra and SalesForce.com are doing it, i.e. taking an "enterprise" product and making it web-available to anyone. And while both still sell to large companies, they also reach individuals and smaller firms, too.
- mattculbreth 20y agoThere you go. I think maybe that's the key--take an existing segment which is back in the early 90s in its usability, put it on the web with the latest UI, usability, etc., and you then go right up against the existing suites. I've actually seen NetSuite do this for ERP, and their UI isn't even any good.
- pg 20y agoI think there is probably a lot of opportunity for smart little startups to compete with enterprise software in the way microcomputers competed with mainframes. Just make something good that everyone can use, and eventually businesses will realize they can use it too.
- run4yourlives 20y agoThat's right out of a "disruptive innovation" paper I read recently. Nice to know the company I'm in with regards to my reading material!
- lkozma 20y agoThe sad thing is that web2.0 is a sales business too, rather than a technology business.