mISV's what do you do?

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Permalink Reply by Neil Davidson on November 19, 2008 at 5:39pm

I'm not an mISV - Red Gate is a medium sized software company.

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Permalink Reply by Martin Howes on November 19, 2008 at 5:50pm

Springwater Software Ltd is a UK-based mISV developing a downloadable software product for Windows using .Net and WPF. All current company revenue is from bespoke design and development services.

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Permalink Reply by Fiona Blake on November 19, 2008 at 7:57pm

I have a marketing and consultancy business that is just about to launch a PR Agency and Marketing Service for mISV companies

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Permalink Reply by Elian Chrebor on November 19, 2008 at 8:03pm

myLittleTools is a France-based mISV. I have 2 web-based MS SQL applications for the webhosting companies (myLittleAdmin and myLittleBackup). I'm currently working on a new web-based/SaaS application (e-tipi.com).
90% of company revenue is from license sales.

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Permalink Reply by Paul Farnell on November 21, 2008 at 9:50pm

We offer online products in the style of 37signals. We're 5 people now. The main product is Litmus.

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Permalink Reply by Mark Dalgarno on November 23, 2008 at 10:52am

Software Acumen offer a number of complementary products and services.

We are value-added resellers for pure::variants and Axivion Bauhaus Suite. pure::variants helps people manage the development of families of similar-but-different software and embedded systems. Bauhaus is a software analysis tool that helps people address the problem of software erosion - the gradual decay that sets into all software systems over time - and quite quickly in some cases :-)

We also partner with itemis to offer training and consultancy on model-based software development in the UK & Ireland and we run a growing international conference and web site in this area.

We have also recently launched Cambridge-based software networking and speaker events under the 'Software East' banner.

My own background is technical having worked as a developer, team leader and head of software development mainly for desktop and enterprise software products ISVs.

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Permalink Reply by Anna-Jayne Metcalfe on November 24, 2008 at 10:01am

Riverblade is (for most purposes) a UK based ISV specialising in Visual Studio integration and code analysis tools. Our main product (Visual Lint) integrates the PC-Lint code analysis tool into the Visual Studio IDE.

FWIW, we've partnered with Gimpel (the PC-Lint vendor), Microsoft and Xoreax (the vendor of IncrediBuild, with which we are in the process of integrating the product); a significant proportion of our sales come via referral from Gimpel, with most of the rest via organic search.

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Permalink Reply by Bill Bither on November 27, 2008 at 4:58am

I started my company as a mISV (then called Shareware). It gave me the confidence to reach higher and grow my software company to be more than just me (we're over 25 employees now). The product I started with we still sell, but all proceeds are donated to charity. I think the mISV approach is wonderful for bootstrapping your company.

I'm seeing a lot of cool web apps these days developed on the side by individual developers - many with potential to grow into a full time business. I'd consider this the modern version of the mISV.

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Permalink Reply by Matt Richards on November 29, 2008 at 7:39pm

Constant Wave sells RF signal analysis software for designers of RF integrated circuits and other RF engineers. The software is typically used in a lab environment in conjunction with bench instruments such as oscilloscopes, vector signal analyzers, and vector network analyzers. I could see creating a browser version of the software, but I don't see us developing an online version. A significant portion of our target market works on classified projects.

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Permalink Reply by Perry Ismangil on December 1, 2008 at 12:44pm

We're an open source company, to add to the mix of stuff.

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