On 2011-08-02 15:41:06 +0100, ccc31807 said:
Most of these are tech companies. Tech companies are very important, but so are other kinds of companies. What do manufacturing companies use, like Ford and Toyota, energy companies like BP and Exxon, pharmaceutical companies, consumer product companies, and so on? What about the big retailers, Sears, WalMart, Target, etc.?
A more important metric is how critical the web presence is to the company. For Amazon, say, it's pretty critical, so what they do is likely to be interesting: if their site is broken they're not making any money. For Toyota, say, well, an outage would probably be embarrassing, but it's not anything like as critical to them.
Unfortunatly I suspect that with web stuff as with other stuff, the answer is that it entirely depends. I am endlessly horrified by the poor state of software that is really critical to large companies.
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