re: The Collapse of the Entrepreneurial Model

Jay Borden — Wed, 20 May 2009 13:27:24 GMT

Well said.

As someone who's slogging it out in the trenches trying to help MSO's architect, develop, and deploy OSS solutions as they move towards the rigors of providing offerings in the Commercial market (and the underlying SLA and QoS commitments), I can attest to the apparent lack of truly innovative companies.

I wonder how much of this is due to a lack of commitment on the part of the Service Provider to spend the $$$, time and discipline that's needed to deploy such offerings. Over the past 5 years especially, I've seen a lack of willingness do what is needed to solve these challenges. If they're not willing to do it, what's the opportunity for that innovator/entrepreneur to sell?

That being said, I still think that there are tremendous opportunities in this space. The "nirvana" of TIRKS replacement has been reborn as the next nirvana of a synchronized and federated "customer-supporting" OSS and underlying data model...and it's not any easier to get there.

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