Today’s challenges in IT industry

• Producing and maintaining software is very expensive today.
• Productivity is very low. Building a house takes weeks, building applications takes months.
• Quality of the software is still fairly low: buggy software is fairly common and it’s tolerated despite of the impact on productivity (rebooting machine, reinstalling application, compatibility issues etc.)
• Vendor lockup: migrating from one vendor to another is very expensive in terms of labor and licensing cost: training, integration into larger systems. Vendors are abusing it to their advantage by forcing their upgrade cycles, service fees etc.
• Customers are very limited on what they can do with the software and how they use it. They still don’t have a full control over what the buy.