Can You Build An Enterprise Only Web App?

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2008/09/can-you-build-a.html

by terpua • 18 years ago

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vaksel3• 18 years ago

Most enterprises don't seem that web friendly right now. It'll probably be another decade before we see the change happening.

tptacek5• 18 years ago

What do you mean, "not web friendly"?

vaksel3• 18 years ago

that they don't trust someone else's hosted solution

dunsany• 18 years ago

Yup. Already did and made (and continue to make) millions on it. The Enterprise is a vertical and the app serves that vertical and that vertical has deep pockets.

jwilliams• 18 years ago

Not sure if I'm missing the point of this... Doesn't the rise of SalesForce completely contradict this?

tptacek5• 18 years ago

Yes.

tptacek5• 18 years ago

The only hard analysis in this post is that enterprises don't adopt corporate IM; they just use AOL IM instead.

First, enterprises do adopt corporate IM. For instance, Notes shops use SameTime. Microsoft shops use whatever comes with LiveMeeting. You don't pay attention to these, because enterprises don't adopt IM from startups. I'm surprised when I meet enterprise IT people who don't have some kind of internal IM.

Second, enterprises don't simply use AOL Instant Messenger; take any 10 of my clients, and 8 of them don't even allow their users to connect to OSCAR (and 4 of those filter GMail as well).

Finally, Twitter isn't IM. Nobody really knows what Twitter is yet. If you had done this same analysis for the retail Internet a year ago, you'd quickly come to the conclusion that Twitter is a stupid idea even for home users. But then, Twitter happens anyways.

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Can You Build An Enterprise Only Web App?

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