{"id":68,"date":"2005-07-01T15:51:37","date_gmt":"2005-07-01T21:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=68"},"modified":"2005-07-01T15:51:37","modified_gmt":"2005-07-01T21:51:37","slug":"a_big_opening_f","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=68","title":{"rendered":"A big opening for little guys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;On-demand computing is definitely starting to make some serious inroads in enterprise IT,&#8221; says a <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.bitpipe.com\/resource\/org_1090505793_180\/20050629-OnDemand.pdf\">new TechTarget report<\/a>. &#8220;We believe that within 7 to 10 years, on-demand computing will be the normal mode of operation in most large enterprises, and it will be increasingly popular with medium-sized businesses&#8230;We also expect that on-demand computing will force application vendors to radically change their business models away from software licensing to pay-as-you-go or a software-as-services model. Several vendors, notably Salesforce.com, are well positioned to be major players in the future on-demand computing world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s becoming more and more clear is that utility computing will be a rich vein for entrepreneurs to mine through the next decade. The TechTarget report describes how big IT vendors are gobbling up small firms with utility-related technologies: Sun buying SeeBeyond and Tarantella, IBM buying Meiosys, Cisco buying Topspin, and so on. On the software side, the success of Salesforce.com and other software-as-service newcomers is attracting <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-3513_22-5759876.html\">a slew of new entrants<\/a>. Most will fail, of course, but the winners will win big.<\/p>\n<p>The standardization and commoditization of IT are spurring consolidation at the top of the market, but in opening the way to a new model of IT supply, the same trends are creating big opportunities for innovative startups. Let the disruption begin.<\/p>\n<p>ADDENDUM: Joe Kraus has <a href=\"http:\/\/bnoopy.typepad.com\/bnoopy\/2005\/06\/its_a_great_tim.html\">an interesting post<\/a> describing how cheap computing is dramatically reducing the costs of launching a business. Although low entry barriers can be a two-edged sword (as lots of dot-com startups discovered), Kraus&#8217;s point is a good one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whether it&#8217;s virtualization, grid computing, or software-as-a-service, utility computing is creating attractive opportunities for a new generation of tech entrepreneurs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}