The 90 Percenters
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It sounds a bit high.
Surely it would be high, but these days so much software is for some website that is used by customers or whatever which is quite often visible externally.
Think of a non-tech company with a website. Anything. Chipotle, there. They have a website, online ordering, and a mobile app which actually does stuff. Do you think 90% of their code is customer visible? I really doubt it. They have code in the POS, code in the planning department, code in payroll, code in accounting, code in purchasing, code in site selection, code in accounts payable, code in marketing, code in... code in everything. This doesn't even code you need to raise the corn, to feed the pig, to deliver it to the slaughterhouse, to ship the carnitas to the store, etc.
This is tangentially related to a post I hope to have up tomorrow. We live life swimming in an unseen sea of software.
But the POS code is not written by Chipotle. For the company that wrote the POS it is customer facing as Chipotle are the customer. Similarly for much of the purchasing and other software they use internally. There would be considerable customisation though.
It will be interesting to see you post.
I'm no tech evangelist but I do know this: there are more apps today than there were a year ago, and there will be even more a year from now. Its like a train of money on the iPhone/iPod/iPad, and the critics to the system which came from nothing in 2008 seem as competent in their predictions as the Apple Dumpling Gang is at robbing trains.
Why do we computer science guys then care so much about something someone (who seems to be pretty much frustrated with everything) wrote in a nontechnical media outlet?