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They're on their way out as well. On the financial side, I work for a company that destroyed the entire desktop side of things. Within 5 years they destroyed a

They're on their way out as well. On the financial side, I work for a company that destroyed the entire desktop side of things. Within 5 years they destroyed all the competitors just by doing it all on the web and cutting admin and management costs. With respect to hotels/booking systems, I'm tackling that one myself. All the software already out there is crap. All the markets above apart from possibly medical are ripe for the taking.

keithpeter 12y ago
"On the financial side, I work for a company that destroyed the entire desktop side of things." How does the disaster recovery plan cover complete loss of Internet connection or corruption of remote data? Genuinely interested.
- allegory 12y ago
  This is always the biggest concern. The smaller firms use 3G based connections anyway as they're mostly on the road. The mid size guys have ADSL and 3G back up. The big guys use leased lines with SLAs. We have 3 fully redundant data centres and a separate archival site. Its cheaper to pay us for the redundancy than fuck it up themselves. Their data is better in our hands as we centralise their DR strategy. Previously their stuff was stored in infected windows laptops with no backups and at best tapes being taken home by staff (unencrypted). They can access it all and export at will too.
  - keithpeter 12y ago
    What happens if you go bankrupt? (I once asked that question of a salesperson flogging eportfolios - student work for portfolio based qualifications stored entirely on their servers. There was no answer)
    - allegory 12y ago
      Source escrow - we release it to clients if we go bankrupt, all data is freely exportable and best of all we're rolling in cash so going bankrupt is going to require some seriously hard work. We're trying not to be that bastard enterprise company if you know what I mean :)
sspiff 12y ago
Perhaps, though I have my doubts for many of them in the short term. Especially gaming: I'm a big fan of what Canvas and WebGL are doing and where things are going, but we're still not there. Regardless, the parent comment was talking about buying Chromebooks today, and today there are still many people and companies that rely on desktop only software.
BorisMelnik 12y ago
the software out there might be crap, but I can tell you it is not going to be replaced on an enterprise level with tablet devices. you are definitely right there are a ton of industries that are going to be totally shut out by what is going on but until then I don't see graphic designers and dozens of other industries using tablets to do their job.
- allegory 12y ago
  I'm not talking about tablets. Tablets are a passing fad. They don't work well for productivity. They work reasonably well for phones and that is about it. Enterprise is going to be Chromebook like devices.
  - BorisMelnik 12y ago
    I'm with you on that all the way. I don't see very many people lugging around computers with massive power supplys and complex raid arrays when most data lives on a cloud platform and most modern b2b apps aren't starving for RAM the way they used to.

keithpeter 12y ago

"On the financial side, I work for a company that destroyed the entire desktop side of things." How does the disaster recovery plan cover complete loss of Internet connection or corruption of remote data? Genuinely interested.

allegory 12y ago
This is always the biggest concern. The smaller firms use 3G based connections anyway as they're mostly on the road. The mid size guys have ADSL and 3G back up. The big guys use leased lines with SLAs. We have 3 fully redundant data centres and a separate archival site. Its cheaper to pay us for the redundancy than fuck it up themselves. Their data is better in our hands as we centralise their DR strategy. Previously their stuff was stored in infected windows laptops with no backups and at best tapes being taken home by staff (unencrypted). They can access it all and export at will too.
- keithpeter 12y ago
  What happens if you go bankrupt? (I once asked that question of a salesperson flogging eportfolios - student work for portfolio based qualifications stored entirely on their servers. There was no answer)
  - allegory 12y ago
    Source escrow - we release it to clients if we go bankrupt, all data is freely exportable and best of all we're rolling in cash so going bankrupt is going to require some seriously hard work. We're trying not to be that bastard enterprise company if you know what I mean :)

sspiff 12y ago

Perhaps, though I have my doubts for many of them in the short term. Especially gaming: I'm a big fan of what Canvas and WebGL are doing and where things are going, but we're still not there. Regardless, the parent comment was talking about buying Chromebooks today, and today there are still many people and companies that rely on desktop only software.

BorisMelnik 12y ago

the software out there might be crap, but I can tell you it is not going to be replaced on an enterprise level with tablet devices. you are definitely right there are a ton of industries that are going to be totally shut out by what is going on but until then I don't see graphic designers and dozens of other industries using tablets to do their job.

allegory 12y ago
I'm not talking about tablets. Tablets are a passing fad. They don't work well for productivity. They work reasonably well for phones and that is about it. Enterprise is going to be Chromebook like devices.
- BorisMelnik 12y ago
  I'm with you on that all the way. I don't see very many people lugging around computers with massive power supplys and complex raid arrays when most data lives on a cloud platform and most modern b2b apps aren't starving for RAM the way they used to.