Replies to post #28170 on Lecere Corporation (fka LCRE)

[Tenacious]

Well, I think companies could go one of two ways: either they will try and build their own cloud solution to reduce the infrastructure costs (imagine the monthly costs for data lines, etc) with their in-house POS solution...

or they will try and outsource it to people like Lecere.

Obviously, those with IT staff may opt for door #1. Unless they've done this before (cloud isn't brand spanking new, but it's not old hat either), they will experience pains.

I'm personally of the opinion that Lecere will satisfy the small and medium restaurant chains. I'm not even entertaining large chains until they have more experience under their belt. I know everyone wants this to happen yesterday. It isn't going to happen yesterday, but it isn't going to take years either (if LCRE wants to gain a credible market share in this window of opportunity).

Remember gang: crawl, walk run. We are still crawling. There is tons of stuff I want to see first before they even entertain an enterprise customer.

[Tenacious]

Private Clouds

Sorry, I misread your post. So, there is a concept called "public" clouds and "private" clouds.

Public cloud = publically accessible (Internet)
Private cloud = private network

So, an idea you are suggesting is that Lecere could offer their solution for a large corporate private cloud.

This is possible; in fact the project I just completed offers public IaaS or private IaaS. The kink in the armor here is that private clouds are infinitely more difficult to set up and manage, as the lines between "what Lecere owns and manages" and "what the large corporate owns and manages" are blurred. Simply not simple. And for the biggest reason, you still have to build and maintain the environment...so the proposed gains of cloud computing are in effect negated. For this reason alone, I would nix the idea until Lecere gains more experience and can expand their capabilities.

I would stay in one model and master it before moving on.