“It is a paradox that the economic value of software is falling even as its strategic value rises, and paradoxes are by definition challenging to accept.” — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“Achieving operational excellence in categories above and around software is exponentially more difficult to achieve than in software alone. But the rewards are much greater, and in many cases, the Software Paradox may mean that would-be providers of software have… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“Developers are the most-important, most-valuable constituency in business today, regardless of industry. Technologists newly empowered with tools, hyper-connected via specialized collaboration and communication networks,… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“full stack startups are those whose focus extends to each layer necessary to deliver the desired user experience.” — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“The fact is that the majority of software businesses today are leaving money on the table by focusing strictly on the production and delivery… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“Given two technologies, the one that’s easier to obtain, configure, and use will usually be the one that wins. Convenience trumps features — even… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“The ascendance of open source is not altruistic; it’s simply good business for contributors and consumers alike. But the reason it’s good business is… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“With the cost of development down by an order of magnitude or more, the throttle on developer creativity has been removed, setting the stage… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“Open core/hybrid source Probably the most common model today, open core describes an open source project that is partially, even mostly, open source, but… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“As such, the company’s value from a technology perspective isn’t software, strictly speaking, but rather outsourced effort. Any business can download and run software… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“So if open source is cannibalizing the commercial software markets, it’s all smooth sailing for those who commercialize open source, right? Well, not exactly.… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“By combining software with another, more readily monetized product — services, in this case — Amazon is able to efficiently extract profit from a… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“It is a paradox that the economic value of software is falling even as its strategic value rises, and paradoxes are by definition challenging… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“There are many potential explanations for the less-than-robust performance, but IBM’s current strategy suggests that one component at least is a challenge to the… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“In such a climate, the more appropriate way to think of software is as an organizational asset: nothing more and nothing less. Looking at… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“Where businesses once saw outsized returns from the code they wrote, today it’s merely a means to an end. It’s often not even a… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
“Whether we’re looking at Apple or Google, then, the lesson is that software is once again a means to an end as opposed to… — Stephen O’Grady Copy Share Image
