Patio11's Law: The software economy is bigger than you think

Post by pc86 » Thu, May 14, 2020, 12:27 AM UTC

ivalm wrote: post #169

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> The perspective “of you haven’t worked with SAP you are in a small org” is wrong. The fact that you are arguing against this might be why you are getting downvoted. The original comment was saying “if you are in a small org you probably haven’t worked with SAP”, which is not the same thing. Edit for further clarification: I can see how it might look like they were arguing what you stated, but it was more of a Bayes…

You know, I actually like your Bayesian interpretation. My main dislike was the dismissive tone in OPs phrasing, but I think his proposition might be OK.

Post by kirubakaran » Thu, May 14, 2020, 1:18 AM UTC

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I think it has to be a startup, i.e. recently founded, hyper growth, usually VC-funded. A company worth a lot of money that has existed for 80 years isn't a unicorn, it's just a company worth $1B+.

When is a startup not a startup anymore. Are Facebook and Google still startups?

Post by ZoomZoomZoom » Thu, May 14, 2020, 2:20 AM UTC

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One could argue the comparison still holds for developers of video games - as long as the game's code is not touched upon release. Used to be the norm, nowadays admittedly seems to be disappearing.

Also the amount of skilled professionals needed to write a song and to write a game is slightly put - different. A song surely requires a skilled professional. But a game required dozens of those, with years of experience and lots fo time. Creative industries get way lower pay because the skill level needed is low compared to many others, like law, medicine etc. If you are talented you can paint great pictures or be…

Post by crimsonalucard » Thu, May 14, 2020, 3:40 AM UTC

youdonthavekids wrote: post #396

crimsonalucard wrote: post #317

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Sounds like SAP does custom App building. Do they use a custom underlying database technology as well? Would it be equivalent to contracting some software system to a a company that would build the system using SQL?

I can't even grasp how you can be so far off the mark. I kind of assumed most people on HN would understand large software platforms and how rolling your own is often not a worthwhile investment. Maybe you should just create your own IDE when you want to write new code or maybe develop our own version of Word when you want to write a letter. How about develop your own email system too? As for the database, traditiona…

Post by crimsonalucard » Thu, May 14, 2020, 3:47 AM UTC

youdonthavekids wrote: post #397

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I mean I guess you can throw all that functionality in a bunch of triggers but that would slow down your database to a crawl every time one record updated.

TO rebuild SAP's manufacturing and finance capabilities into your own system would take many many years and cost large sums of money, you are then stuck supporting a custom solution forever and you'll be forever behind your competitors, your industry trends and whatever new tax or other legislation that needs adding to you system. This isn't nodejs and MySQL mate.