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That's the thing about reading articles like these, they are massive generalizations that apply to big league players. There are still plenty of opportunities t

• nickpsecurity 11y ago
  That's my take. Funny that it attracts agreement on HN despite counterexamples showing up here regularly. Last one was AeroFS: a private, safer Dropbox for a monthly fee. At the moment, that one use case can (and probably does) have dozens of successful vendors whose sales teams were first to get to customer. Once deployed, they're usually hesitant to switch and have related requirements. That's both increased odds of long-term revenue plus opportunity for profitable, custom work. That's just one out of a zillion scenarios where potential customer is unlikely to use FOSS or "The Cloud." There's also several attributes outside cost and some business models that almost nobody is pushing hard in software industry like we saw in other industries. Especially retail, which adapted like crazy all over. Anyone spotting these and jumping on them in the right way might make a killing.