What Enterprise Software Can Learn From Community Sites: Gary Little | Linux Today

What Enterprise Software Can Learn From Community Sites: Gary Little

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 18, 2007

You have invested in both JasperSoft and MuleSource.
What made you look at those companies as good investment
opportunities?

“JasperSoft actually started life as a traditional enterprise
software company called Panscopic, and over a couple years saw that
the traditional enterprise software business model was tough. You
build a product then you buy a list of potential customers, you do
direct mails and the sales force does phone calls, and you then
wrap sales engineers around them to try and do proofs of concept.
And you know, maybe six to nine months later you start to get some
sales…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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