10.20.2005

The New Kingmakers How Developers Took Over the World

March 2013

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In the beginning…

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Software was just an enabler

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Eventually it evolved from means to end

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Opportunities were perceived

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And leveraged

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The Era of Enterprise Software 1975 - 1998

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In which Software = Business Software

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These people controlled software development

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But the future was already here

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Created 1991

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Created 1994

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Created 1995

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Created 1995

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Created 1995

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And then in 1998

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A company that made money with software rather than

from software

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A company that built itself from free software

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A company not beholden to the enterprise

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Welcome to the The Developer Era

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How did we get here?

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For the first time in history developers didn’t need

permission

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They still needed hardware, however

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Created 2006

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“EC2 means anyone with a $10 bill can rent a 10-machine cluster with 1TB of distributed storage for 8 hours.”

- Flip Kromer

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With hardware and software, what was still missing?

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What might SaaS enable?

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Education and Training

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Collaboration Mechanisms

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Marketplaces for Goods & Services

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And lastly, developers needed access to capital

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Source: National Venture Capital Association and the UNH Center for Venture Research Credit: Chris Tacy

And it’s been granted

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What IT Decision Makers Think is Being Used

CIO

DEVELOPERS

What Developers Want to Use

What is Actually Being Used

The Net

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Developers have never been more empowered than

they are today

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Consider language adoption

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Consider the state of standards

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Consider software adoption

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Consider market performance

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The reality is clear

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Developers = Kingmakers

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Where to get it?

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