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by Fomite
2860 days ago
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"I'm pretty sure "prefer" rather than "urgently need" isn't compelling enough to give a startup a enough of a competitive advantage. There's also not much (if any) synergy with any of the rest of HappiLab's core competencies to make sense as an addon for them. IT services could be just another vendor HappiLab handles." Potentially. I think one of the things that will become more important - and will synergize - is the number of wet/dry labs. There are an awful lot of new computational servers being bought by non-tech savvy PIs. |
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I'd hope that's not just viewed as an opportunity exploit information assymetry by tech/IT services firms.
I do believe, however, that scientific computing needs are similar enough to general computing needs that this won't be widespread (or at least not for long). It would also mean that it would make sense for a lab services provider to offer generic IT except as a pass-through for convenience (subject to cost-saving disintermediation).
IOW, I doubt you're that special, but that's a good thing!