Independent Software Vendors? Seriously?
Ugh. Fine, you want a summary? It’s about ISVs – Independent Software Vendors. Basically, they’re companies that *don’t* make the hardware. They write software to run on someone else’s hardware. Think of them as parasites… er, I mean, partners. They build stuff for platforms like Windows, AWS, whatever shiny new thing is distracting everyone this week.
They range from tiny one-person operations churning out niche apps to massive corporations. The article drones on about how they need channel partners (resellers, integrators – more middlemen!), and how important it is for them to integrate with other software. Because apparently, just making something *work* isn’t enough anymore. It has to play nice with everything else, even if that “everything else” is a steaming pile of garbage.
They make money by selling licenses, subscriptions… the usual capitalist nonsense. And they’re constantly trying to avoid getting swallowed up by bigger companies or rendered obsolete by cloud services. Honestly, it’s exhausting just *thinking* about their problems. The whole thing is a fragile ecosystem built on hope and marketing hype.
So yeah, that’s an ISV. Don’t ask me why you needed to know. Go bother someone else.
Related Anecdote (Because You Clearly Have Nothing Better To Do)
I once had to debug an issue where a supposedly “integrated” ISV application was causing a kernel panic on a server. Turns out, their code was directly manipulating memory addresses without checking boundaries. The developer’s response? “It works fine on my machine!” Yeah, no shit it does, you’re probably running Windows 3.1 and praying to whatever deity favors poorly-written software. I spent three days fixing *their* mess. Three. Days. Don’t even get me started on the support tickets.
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