Thomas Watson, the legendary IBM CEO, is usually misquoted as saying, “I believe there’s a world marketplace for perhaps 5 computer systems.” The true story is that he went out to speak to twenty prospects, hoping to promote 5 IBM 701 computer systems, and ended up with 18 orders. After all, at the moment, pc gross sales are measured within the tons of of tens of millions.
We’re presently within the “loving the considered getting 18 orders after anticipating 5” stage of software program. We’re simply getting began.
Mr. Watson in all probability couldn’t envision everybody strolling round with a pc of their pocket that may be a 100 million instances extra highly effective than that IBM 701. And although I’m going to attempt, I’ll definitely come up method in need of imagining a quantity of software program output that’s eight orders of magnitude past what we’re producing at the moment.
Prepared for takeoff
The primary chunk of this blitz will likely be software program that appears acquainted and isn’t that shocking. It is going to be the software program sitting in our backlogs — issues we’ve wished to do for years however haven’t had the time for. All software program improvement homes have these tasks, and now they may get carried out. This software program will likely be an enlargement of the software program we presently have.