Re:Impossible to compete with free software
by cturner on Friday March 06, 2009 @12:49PM
(#505709)
I'm oriented around the "enterprise". The mainstream free software I work with tends to be powerful but difficult to learn to use effectively.
As far as I can tell it's reasonably difficult to find people who are able to work through simple network connectivity problems without paying a lot of money.
Here's a two minute business model for someone who aspires to start a mISV:
1. Learn how to methodically diagnose connectivity problems between points on tcp/ip networks.
2. Identify a niche with money that relies on connectivity.
3. Write some software for people in the space (or find some free stuff that does it that other people don't have time to learn how to learn)
4. Become known as a person who uses such software to solve problems.
As far as I can tell it's reasonably difficult to find people who are able to work through simple network connectivity problems without paying a lot of money.
Here's a two minute business model for someone who aspires to start a mISV:
1. Learn how to methodically diagnose connectivity problems between points on tcp/ip networks.
2. Identify a niche with money that relies on connectivity.
3. Write some software for people in the space (or find some free stuff that does it that other people don't have time to learn how to learn)
4. Become known as a person who uses such software to solve problems.
5. Profit!