Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 23 Jun 2003 17:43:17 +0200 | From | Stephan von Krawczynski <> | Subject | Re: [OT] Re: Troll Tech [was Re: Sco vs. IBM] |
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On Mon, 23 Jun 2003 08:06:16 -0700 Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com> wrote:
> Your model is fine, there is nothing wrong with it but there isn't a lot > right with it either. You can't really grow your business under that > model. Why? Because you are essentially a consulting shop and that > isn't going to generate the revenue you need to hire more people, build > more things, get more consulting. You can keep yourself going but not > make enough to get more people going.
Hm, you shouldn't possibly hire in management of one of the several SAP consultant companies ;-)
> Instead of coming back at me with the premise of "well, I'm eating so my > model is OK" how about coming back with a plan that says "Here's how we > make an open source based business put Microsoft out of business". That's > reality. You are just playing around on the edges, there is nothing > wrong with that, but until you have a viable plan that competes with the > big boys let's stop kidding ourselves, ok?
Well, Larry, probably you should not wonder about not getting suggestions how to put M$ out of business by consulting for a bitkeeper-like software application. I guess that wouldn't really work out. If you are looking for competing with M$ you should call up one of the linux distributors and merge with them. It does not really look like RH or SuSE do all that bad (to name examples). And I do believe they could earn a lot more bucks if (even) more focus is put on consulting. To my knowledge a consulting company can scale just as well as a (software) manufacturing company. For sure this type of business is more complex, but nevertheless I can very well see more income per customer by service contracts or the like. I mean this is an original M$ statement: "compared to the TCO the prizing of our product is not interesting", which basically reads: you have to spend the big bucks _after_ you bought the software... Which sums up to the point where M$ and open source people basically tell you the same thing, only you are no believer (don't take this as critics).
Regards, Stephan
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