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by kfk 2021 days ago
What about Microsoft enterprise offerigs, oracle, salesforce? To me they also offer platforms, but they tend to mostly sell their own products on those.
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To work out monetization options, we need to use a very specific definition for the term "platform" - https://medium.com/breadcrumb/the-platform-matrix-all-platfo...

Essentially, it is applicable to businesses that create cross-side network effects between developers and users. This includes Salesforce, but wouldn't include businesses that create developer tools or infrastructure for instance.