How is E-Biz going to Change Professional Software Services?

[COBOL]

Please Give Us Some Ideas on How E-Biz Will Change Software<br>Houses and Software Services? Does it give Advantage to<br>Big Portals, and Large International Companies.

 

[kfickert]

It gives the advatage to whom ever can keep up with the latest technology.&nbsp;&nbsp;Chances are the smaller development firm can change faster than a large multi-national.&nbsp;&nbsp;I think that we'll see the day of in house development go by the way side and small development firms that can produce great software will rule the day.&nbsp;&nbsp;Of all the products we use to power our site, not one was written by myself or the staff, other than the basic PHP pages.&nbsp;&nbsp;Everthing was with GPL or purchased.&nbsp;&nbsp;There is no way we could have developed as the level of software we're using for the $6000 price tag we spent.&nbsp;&nbsp;

 

[Guest_imported]

E-biz has become much more than just E-commerce. I own a web application firm, and we call e-commerce &quot;first-generation web.&quot; Because E-biz is now requiring much more than just E-commerce (clients now want web-based HR, accounting, marketing, supply chain management, ERP, etc.), we are calling web applications &quot;next-generation web.&quot; The demands of E-biz have caused the web application market to explode. Specifically, now most clients are looking for web software solutions rather than the typical client-server model made popular over the last decade. To see what I mean, check out my company's website: ClaspOne.com. Software has already changed, but E-biz will keep those changes coming. What do you think?