The much lower cost per user greatly expands the chance of making money. I'm thinking it over. He shifts to the big picture. That would be a reasonable corporate IS budget, he notes. He is prepared to list dozens of others.
Harder entry means more profit.
Given that the Web is only a delivery medium, Saylor reasons that the big money will go to big players who will use it as a new distribution channel for established businesses. The vast databases of companies, like Sears, or American Express, and especially the phone companies cannot be duplicated by a startup, says Saylor, and will profit them first and foremost, then others who can package and resell it. Those other big winners from the coming query tone boom will include firms that have mastered the difficult technology of data management and mining. A bunch of kids in a garage are not going to just jump into that, he believes. Answers are a lean-bandwidth business.