“Several years ago, observers of the software industry started
speaking about commoditization. Some viewed it as the antithesis of
innovation, others saw in it the ultimate form of business model
innovation. Some claimed commoditization of the software industry
was a threat, others that it was the salvation. Whatever you
thought back then about software commoditization–today it is
reality.“And not only software is being commoditized. With the advent of
low-cost systems based on Intel and Opteron CPUs, so is hardware,
and arguably outsourced services are also being commoditized
through offshoring…”
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