Slashdot interview with a VC.
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JBoss ended up selling to Red Hat for $420M which was 28 times trailing 12 month revenue ($15M). Red Hat is a publicly held company; its shareholders and management team are clearly comfortable with the open source business model of not owning your intellectual property and valuing the company based upon unit marketshare and support and service revenue. Unit marketshare is a proxy for long term revenue because if the number is large it indicates a lot of customers; the shareholders are betting the management team can figure out how to get revenue from customers over time (ie by potentially introducing new product and services).
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In the consumer internet space, we are looking for initial adoption by consumers. In the enterprise space, we want real businesses that have evaluated the product and would be willing to buy the product if it were available.
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Most software companies consist of intellectual property (IT), but more importantly are the skills of the founders. There are many challenges both from a technical and business perspective that must be addressed by the team. So the founding team is key.
Wednesday, October 18, 2006
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Pension Tracking
An advanced solution for pension administration, PensionPath manages the entire life cycle of pension administration, from new hire to retirement. The software also includes self-service tools that take the burden off HR while enhancing your employees’ understanding of the future value of their retirement benefits.
Thursday, September 21, 2006
PC License Tracking
Numara™ Track-It! 7
As the world’s most widely installed help desk and asset management solution, Track-It!, founded in 1991, has helped IT professionals at more than 45,000 customer sites track over 14 million assets.
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2007.04.23
iInventory is a simple program that can help organizations of all sizes track servers and computers, including maintaining an inventory that knows about changes made to hardware configuration. According to the iInventory description page, the application can:
Run audits from your desktop
Scan & audit connected Win PCs
Audits Windows, Mac and Linux
Create HTML & grid reports
Access, MSDE or SQL database For hardware & software inventory
Ensure Software license compliance
Integrate with Microsoft software inventory
iInventory (previously 'LANauditor') lets you capture hardware & software inventory and registry keys without having to leave your desk. Collect the hardware and software configuration of all PCs on your network with one or two clicks. Use iInventory to check software license compliance, to create and maintain accurate hardware inventory, or run pre-rollout OS, hardware, and software analysis. Identify user file abuse (finds MP3, AVI, and any other file extension) and provide system data to an IT help desk. The open database format allows you to work directly with your inventory data in MS Access, MSDE, or SQL Server database formats. iInventory installs on Windows 98-XP and can be used to audit all the operating systems listed, including Vista, OSX and Linux.
License Free to try; $715.00 to buy
Limitations 10-record trial, 100-record trial if registered
Requirements Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
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http://netsupportdna.com/inventory.asp
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2009.06
Visual Audit X4
http://www.visionsoft.com/product.asp?prod=VAP
Normal Price £180
Volume Purchase Discount £72
Total Price £108
As the world’s most widely installed help desk and asset management solution, Track-It!, founded in 1991, has helped IT professionals at more than 45,000 customer sites track over 14 million assets.
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2007.04.23
iInventory is a simple program that can help organizations of all sizes track servers and computers, including maintaining an inventory that knows about changes made to hardware configuration. According to the iInventory description page, the application can:
Run audits from your desktop
Scan & audit connected Win PCs
Audits Windows, Mac and Linux
Create HTML & grid reports
Access, MSDE or SQL database For hardware & software inventory
Ensure Software license compliance
Integrate with Microsoft software inventory
iInventory (previously 'LANauditor') lets you capture hardware & software inventory and registry keys without having to leave your desk. Collect the hardware and software configuration of all PCs on your network with one or two clicks. Use iInventory to check software license compliance, to create and maintain accurate hardware inventory, or run pre-rollout OS, hardware, and software analysis. Identify user file abuse (finds MP3, AVI, and any other file extension) and provide system data to an IT help desk. The open database format allows you to work directly with your inventory data in MS Access, MSDE, or SQL Server database formats. iInventory installs on Windows 98-XP and can be used to audit all the operating systems listed, including Vista, OSX and Linux.
License Free to try; $715.00 to buy
Limitations 10-record trial, 100-record trial if registered
Requirements Windows 98/Me/NT/2000/XP/2003 Server/Vista
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http://netsupportdna.com/inventory.asp
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2009.06
Visual Audit X4
http://www.visionsoft.com/product.asp?prod=VAP
Normal Price £180
Volume Purchase Discount £72
Total Price £108
Thursday, September 14, 2006
Websites for specific industries
School Fusion provides templates for specific activities of schools. Running on FreeBSD/Apache/PHP/PostgreSQL
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What other industries/organizations have many companies with similar website and communication needs?
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What other industries/organizations have many companies with similar website and communication needs?
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