It’s the classic tale of struggle in the technology industry: the little guy taking on the big corporations.

Original Software teamed with another little guy, AppLabs, to market one another’s quality assurance products in order to snatch up some of the market from the likes of IBM and Microsoft.

If George Wilson, founder and operations director for Original, has any worry about competing against the large corporations, he didn’t show it. The confident exec scoffed at the profuse, acquisition-happy habits of some of those companies.      

“I don’t think it necessarily delivers what people want,” Wilson said of acquisitions. “From an accounting perspective, you gain more market share and everything, but there are challenges in putting the pieces together. Customers want software that doesn’t jolt them and makes their lives easier at a reasonable cost. You don’t necessarily improve that process by saying ‘we’ve got a gap there so we need to buy this.’ You improve the software process by investing in technology that will make it better.”

Wilson continued, much like Scrappy Doo willing to combat ghosts and monsters much bigger than he on the show ‘Scooby-Doo.’ “I think there is a lot of frustration in the industry with some of the vendors that maybe haven’t delivered quite so well, are a little bit inflexible, or maybe have some older style technology. We’ve come on with a more flexible approach, a fresher methodology, and products that are genuinely able to deliver in the short term.”