miniblog.

I find it fascinating how some businesses have scheduled downtime for their websites (e.g. my electricity provider last weekend), but others don't. I suspect it's primarily culture. You generally need to turn off electricity to do work, so your other tooling may reflect that.

Businesses are increasingly choosing individual apps rather than buying entire suites from the same vendor: https://capiche.com/p/enterprise-software-is-dead (I'm not convinced it's that easy to switch though: established tools tend to have lots of integrations set up.)

On building business models on top of open source projects: https://medium.com/@johnmark/open-source-business-models-considered-harmful-2e697256b1e3 (Different things have been tried historically, but businesses need to provide value! FOSS is not necessarily a business opportunity.)