[mindcrime]

Corollary question: If Oracle is throwing out $1billion to acquire companies like ATG should we be encouraging each other to build more enterprise-y software as opposed to the next twitter client?

No, don't be silly. The last thing the world needs is more startups producing enterprise software. The future is Social Media and real-time geo-located, location-aware activity-stream checkins with gamification and photo-sharing, plus Q+A, and a AJAX enabled TODO list. So, yeah, everybody should be working on building something like that, not enterprise crap.

/me whistles quietly to himself, and goes back to building enterprise software that he can sell for money, secure in the knowledge that the threat of additional competitors has now been abated.

[goodwinb]

I'd like to hear more your experiences about breaking into the enterprise world and selling your knowledge management software.

[mindcrime]

Me too. :-)

All joking aside, I'm still VERY early in this process... I'm in what Steve Blank would call "Customer Discovery," so I don't have a lot to talk about yet. But as I get more into it, and when I have some time, I'll be blogging and writing about my experiences.

[zooey]

yeah the future is social media....good luck

[mauriciob]

Good luck not reading things thoroughly.