Why software commoditisation is a myth
Submitted by Ty on May 14, 2007 - 2:00pm
“Software prices will eventually fall to zero. The open-source software movement has already started that commoditisation.”
This pronouncement came recently from MIT professor Michael A Cusumano at a one-day Silicon Valley conference called “The New Software Industry”. If that sounds too good to be true to corporate IT shops that are forever squeezed by software costs, well, yeah, it is.
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