What's the difference between "Non-web company" and "Other"? I work in the financial services industry, for example.
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#142Earlier quoted context omitted.
How would you even begin to collect the data necessary to make an informed decision on this?
I'm aware of one side of the equation, many millions of dynamic websites. My wager would be that websites and web related stuff (also intranet) now makes up the bulk of the software written but that the money is still made on the other side.
But don't forget the many millions of business critical spreadsheets powered by VBA...
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#143Hmm. When "Other" is the highest result (at the time of my posting this), this clearly needs better categories.
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#144Wow, I didn't expect so many (max right now) votes for Non-web company. It'd be nice to hear more about these companies for a change. Who are you guys and what companies are you running?
Defense company, designing complex things out of exotic materials that survive big explosions. Don't really want to be more specific than that.
I used to work for Bug Labs during college, but actually graduated as a mechanical engineer and went into that industry for at least the time being.
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#145Acushnet company. Sporting goods manufacturer most famous for Titleist golf balls.
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#146Other: architect
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#147I work for a pharma to medical professional agency - this includes web development, desktop applications, mobile development (both web and app) as well as convention related applications (kiosks, booth entertainment, etc).
While the subject matter might not be overall interesting, I get to use interesting technologies; for example I am currently playing with the Kinect and RFID technologies to do R&D for convention use.
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#148Wow, I didn't expect so many (max right now) votes for Non-web company. It'd be nice to hear more about these companies for a change. Who are you guys and what companies are you running?
Defense company, distributed sensing and targeting.
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#150Earlier quoted context omitted.
I am almost certain that non-web software brings in much more revenue than web software. There is a lot of niche WinForms stuff out there from no-name vendors that rule a given industry and companies pay a lot of money for that, and that's not even counting revenue from office suites, operating systems, financial management, and other desktop software that sits in every business. There are a few glaring exceptions li…
Oh, absolutely. Before my current job I had no idea of the sort of money that corporations would throw at enterprise software if it filled an need. We have an enterprise product in a under-developed market; in the first six months we pushed prices up literally 1000 fold without any drop in interest. I've observed this even in competitive markets. Enterprise is a seriously seriously big money spinner; you're looking a…
Would you recommend working for enterprises to find out what sort of software they need, or can you just ask them?