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So if you look just at the build acceleration part of Electric Cloud then you are correct in thinking that the low hanging fruit is around large projects that use compiled code. But the definition of 'large' turns out to be important. You've mentioned a single large project (OpenOffice), but we see a lot of large projects that actually consist of tens or hundreds of small variants (the canonical example is a cell phone company that compiles variants of the the same code for different target hardware). This adds up to a lot of time (although each individual build may be relatively short).

On the web application side we do have customers because quite a lot of them are actually writing in languages like C++, C# and Java. Build acceleration is helpful there. For companies that are doing something like PHP then our build management tools (Electric Commander) are more appropriate since they are used to coordinate deployment of a large site.



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