No company will buy products just because they are better. They buy the brand, the support, the advertising.
They'll buy it if the places the existing product is lacking pisses off the decision maker.
I would adjust this. No company will buy products just because they are a bit better. You have to completely knock that out of the park to be compelling.
OTOH, I'll grant if you really fail on support etc. you will probably fizzle out anyway.
What support does anyone need to use Confluence? How many people _use_ that support?
> How many people _use_ that support?
That's not really relevant to Enterprise sales.
Sounds a bit like Tettra? https://tettra.com/
Our company uses Quip for this sort of use case, but that's not really the same thing as what you're asking for.
Andy here, co-founder of Tettra. Just wanted to say thanks for the shoutout. A pleasant surprise to my day as I was reading this thread.
Happy to answer anyone's questions about Tettra and the wiki space in general here.
Is it available for on site installation?
I've bumped into two organizations which use Confluence for developer reference rather than Github's own repo-based wikis. Why??? In one case a manager even made us move an extensive github wiki to Confluence. After that, developers stopped using the reference and that had an impact on code quality. WTF.
There are already some good general purpose wiki providers out there, too!
Re:Startup Ideas 2020
by bearer_token on Friday January 17, 2020 @11:00PM
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> a clean install
why use on-prem, in this day and age?
Give Confluence a run for its money.
Confluence is so bloated that a clean install takes longer to start than it takes to boot my laptop and log in.
Plugin SDK documentation is a mess.
As far as I can see it only sells because of the brand and because of network effects.
If anyone could manage to create a real wiki (remember, it means quick!) and market it they might have a chance at some nice cash that would otherwise flow to a company that keeps wasting peoples time.
End of rant ;-)