On: Yammer is TC50 Winner - This is a Joke? Right?

[jmacd]

Sure, IT budgets are growing more slowly than they used to, but they are still bigger than they have ever been.

The idea that 1$/user/month is outside an "enterprise" budget is laughable. Stop making things up.

[aneesh → jmacd]

> "The idea that 1$/user/month is outside an "enterprise" budget is laughable."

So is the idea that Fortune 500 companies would let data like this be in the cloud.

[jmacd → aneesh]

Yeah,. Agree., even if I wish it wasn't the case.

I have been seeing a lot of cool thinking on how The Cloud can go private for these orgs.

In a way, that has started. A lot of software providers (including us) will sell a VM image that can be loaded up and moved around as needed (to provision more hardware). It seems like a baby-step.

[sabat → jmacd]

I'm not making things up; I work in an 'enterprise'. (And I still dislike that term.)

$1/user/month in a 40,000-person enterprise (smaller than, say, Oracle) would be $480,000/year, not a trivial sum to get in the current climate.

[ryanwaggoner → sabat]

That presumes that every person in the organization signs up. Actual adoption is likely to be far lower.

[jmacd → sabat]

This also assumes that an organization that big would ever even consider paying the going-rate for a piece of software. Now way.

They also would never thrown down their credit card for a 40k/month expense.