| See my response here https://gist.githubusercontent.com/anonymous/cba53d636ac477d... I should add reasons there is a need for change: Vendors in the current space are "behind" in terms of technological offering. The APIs provided by vendors are often cludgy to non-existent. The UI for these applications are non-intuitive and usually an afterthought. The top-tier vendors in this space regularly charge upwards of $5000 or more for a concurrent license Vendors and their partners regularly charge somewhere between $1400 - $1800 per day for consulting services Projects for LIMS implementation typically last over 6 months and many last over 1 or 2 years. Maintenance costs typically are in the %18-20% range. While those numbers may be typical for enterprise software, the value doesn't warrant it. Product quality is usually poor due to poor product testing. Many of the top-tier vendors have highly-complex solutions that are the result of piling new technology on top of old-messy data models year after year. A new, serious player in this space would have the advantage of starting "from scratch". There are many benefits and reason as to why we should be seeing innovation, but we just aren't seeing it. |
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