When people pay the proprietary tax, a lot of money goes towards stockholders. They are not the industry.
Software products have a life span and within this industry there is a tendency that costs go down. That is the total cost for a given solution. Traditionally with results going up and costs going down option that where out of reach become economic. This drives the evolution that can be seen in ICT.
With GRID computing, the OS as a commodity, hardware and software costs will go down a lot. All kinds of technology become feasable as talent goes elsewhere to make a buck.
ICT is like a pigs market, when there too many pigs they get slaughtered driving down the meat price. With too few pigs they breed like hell driving the meat price up.
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Posted by: gerardm on January 30, 2003 12:27 AMSoftware products have a life span and within this industry there is a tendency that costs go down. That is the total cost for a given solution. Traditionally with results going up and costs going down option that where out of reach become economic. This drives the evolution that can be seen in ICT.
With GRID computing, the OS as a commodity, hardware and software costs will go down a lot. All kinds of technology become feasable as talent goes elsewhere to make a buck.
ICT is like a pigs market, when there too many pigs they get slaughtered driving down the meat price. With too few pigs they breed like hell driving the meat price up.
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