One of the best posts Ive read by Jon Bruner: every company is a software company. radar.oreilly/2014/05/whats-a-tech-company-anyway.html As software reaches beyond the confines of monitor and keyboard, it becomes a bigger part of every business: a way to add intelligence to things that haven’t been intelligent before; a way to instrument and optimize physical machines the way that web advertising and financial portfolios have been instrumented and optimized over the last 10 years. I meant this in two senses: first, that every company must now understand software in order to survive, and second, that as software and hardware collide, we’ll see a lot of big advances come out of companies you wouldn’t think of as tech companies. Manufacturers, airlines, and electrical utilities all have incredible expertise in what they do, developed from operating in very difficult, highly evolved industries. They understand the first principles in production engineering, queueing, and power distribution, and given the right ways to interact with the rest of the software community, they’ll be able to develop powerful platforms that can attract other companies, large and small. We can see this emerging through companies like FedEx, GE, and Ford, and the question of how partnerships will develop between software companies and builders of things will be central at Solid. The tech sector is wide open.
Posted on: Tue, 13 May 2014 21:57:06 +0000
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