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In Business of Software Vertical versus Horizontal
Vertical versus Horizontal:
• vertical merger means a merger with says a supplier.
• Horizontal merger means one with a competior.
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What are they?
I think Vertical refers to a Chain of customer/Suppliers.
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Vertical:
Vertical can also mean a particular industry or sector
ie,”oil & Gas” or “Auto manufacturing”.
Horizontal:
Horizontal Would be a Categorization that cuts across
Vertical,ie.”Windows System Administrators” or
“Accounting Managers”.
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Going Vertical means targetting a group of customers who
are all in the same industry.
Examples:
A vertically targetted ISV might go after financial companies or Manufacturing Companies.Each of those represents vertical market.
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Targetting a Horizontal market segments means making your
products or Services available to a variety of different companies that do totally different things.
Examples:
Windows XP has broad Horizontal appeal because it’s in use by all kinds of businesses,consumers & even students.
Totally different types of users.
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When I sold Sun Hardware,
Vertical Scaling meant that you could add more CPUs,
RAM,ect ..to one machine.
Horizontal Scaling meant adding more Smaller machines.
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The web tier of a 3-tier solution should scale
Horizontally (more load=more servers).
The DB powering the backend should be on hardware that scale Vertically(more load=more RAM,CPUs,ect..).
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A definition of a vertical market is one that deals with a particular
industry meeting its needs,
A horizontal market is more general,it appeals to,or deals
with a much wider range of business,uses,ect…
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‘A market which meets a given need of a wide variety of industries , rather than a specific one , for
eg:word processing software’.
A same site classes a vertical market as:
‘A market which meets the needs of a particular industry,
for eg:a piece of equipment used only by semiconductor manfactures’.
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Empirical analysis of vertical & horizontal Intra Industry Trade.
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Horizontal & vertical milling Machines manufacture