A previous article talked about: "A brief discussion on the marketing strategies of traditional software companies in the Internet market." Today, I would like to turn around and talk about the problems faced by Internet companies that rely on online survival. In recent years, webmasters can all realize that CMS systems and BBS systems have undergone major changes in China, from simple functions to powerful and complex functions, from commercial encryption to free open source. The team physically moves from individuals to teams to formal corporate operations. But are developers actually making money?
It is not difficult to see from our side that 80% of individual webmasters use free and open source CMS and BBS systems, while 30% of webmasters even delete the copyright directly. Most corporate users also have a similar phenomenon. In other words, developers hardly rely on the authorization of the product itself to make money. They mainly sell other businesses through the word-of-mouth gained from the product's extensive free customer base, which mainly includes the development of customized systems, secondary development of products, and other aspects. Business and cooperation.
How difficult is it for developers to live? dedecms, phpcms, discuz, phpwind... These can be said to be the best representative systems for PHP development in the industry. I believe it is also the most used system by everyone, including several of my favorite systems. Of the first two, for some reason, the boss all resigned. The latter two suffered a huge decrease in users due to the BBS network turmoil. There are more similar developers, including bankruptcy, mergers and acquisitions, strong support and other current situations. It can be said simply: the future is uncertain.
What puts developers in such an embarrassing situation? It’s not the system itself, nor is it a problem with the network environment. Ranking up PM4.NET Teacher Geng thinks that the customer group has been selected wrongly. Webmasters, this circle basically has certain secondary development technology, so most webmasters choose to process the open source system to meet their own needs. It is difficult for a few webmasters to spend money to buy authorization, or hire someone to do secondary development. development. And these products for companies to use are just websites and forums. It has nothing to do with the most frequent daily work within the company. The most important thing is that the price difference between the two words of website and system is several zero.
So, what is the way out for developers such as CMS and BBS? Taking into account the accumulation of their original technology and reputation, they can better inherit the original results into new applications with less effort, and maximize the of making money. I think that these developers who live online should consider the system that is most needed for internal management of enterprises in the future: collaborative management platform.
Collaborative management platform - simply put, it integrates the separate financial software, human resources and other office software in the past, moves it online using B/S, and enables better collaboration between people to improve corporate office work. efficiency. For details, please refer to the definition of FORP.
Why are developers such as CMS and BBS recommended to consider turning to the development of collaborative management platforms?
First: Because they are also based on the B/S structure, development ideas and habits are easy to inherit.
Second: CMS and BBS used to handle procedural logic events that were no less powerful than B/S office software such as collaborative management platforms.
Third: CMS and BBS have stronger online survivability, industry reputation and user base.
What developers such as CMS and BBS need to pay attention to when turning to collaborative management platforms: mainly the thoughts and logic of business processes and management concepts. After all, I don't have a background in office and management software. In this regard, you can refer to www.forp.cn, a company that leads the development of domestic collaborative management platforms. This article is more about giving some advice in one direction. Maybe it's wrong, but it's still worth thinking about.
Author: Ranking Up Geng Shihui QQ950090 Welcome to discuss
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