The New Kingmakers
              How Developers Took Over the World

March 2013
10.20.2005
In the beginning…



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Software was just an enabler




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Eventually it evolved
 from means to end



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Opportunities were perceived




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And leveraged




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The Era of Enterprise Software
         1975 - 1998 



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In which
Software = Business Software 



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These people controlled
 software development




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But the future was already here



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Created 1991




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Created 1994




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Created 1995




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Created 1995




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Created 1995




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And then in 1998




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A company that made money 
  with software rather than 
        from software


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A company that built itself from
       free software



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A company not beholden to the
        enterprise



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Welcome to the 
The Developer Era


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How did we get here?


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For the first time in history
  developers didn’t need
        permission


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They still needed 
hardware, however



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Created 2006




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“EC2 means anyone with a $10
bill can rent a 10-machine
cluster with 1TB of distributed
storage for 8 hours.” 
                    - Flip Kromer


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With hardware and software, 
  what was still missing?



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What might SaaS enable?




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Education and Training




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Collaboration Mechanisms




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Marketplaces for Goods & Services




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And lastly, developers 
needed access to capital


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And it’s been granted




                    Source: National
                    Venture Capital
                    Association and the
                    UNH Center for
                    Venture Research
                    Credit: Chris Tacy


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The Net
                  What IT Decision Makers Think is Being Used

                                    CIO




What Developers Want to Use
                       What is Actually Being Used


                               DEVELOPERS


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Developers have never
been more empowered than
      they are today

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Consider language adoption



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Consider the state of standards



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Consider software adoption



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Consider market performance



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The reality is clear



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Developers = Kingmakers



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Where to get it?




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QUESTIONS

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