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Python Culture
Each software project has its own culture and style, its own approach to solving problems. Python tries to keep things simple, to be orthogonal but not too much so, and to assist the prog...
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http://www.python.org/dev/culture.html
The Natural History of Software Platforms
In this essay, we'll explore why almost all software technology will go through stages that include a commercial, for-profit period, but ultimately end up FOSS. We'll look at why commerc...
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http://www.synthesist.net/writing/software_platforms.html
Shirky: Power Laws, Weblogs, and Inequality
Diversity plus freedom of choice creates inequality, and the greater the diversity, the more extreme the inequality.
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http://www.shirky.com/writings/powerlaw_weblog.html
Competition as an evolving network
Competitive pressure on specialists decreased after 1998, as a result of specialist differentiation. During the same period, competitive pressure on generalist search engines, which did n...
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http://users.fmg.uva.nl/jbruggeman/SEnetwork.htm
The Fading Altruism of Open Source Development
The nexus of open source development appears to have shifted to Europe over the last ten years. This paper explains why this trend undermines cultural arguments about "hacker ethics" and ...
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http://www.firstmonday.dk/issues/issue6_12/lancashire
Vendor lock-in
a situation in which a customer is dependent on a vendor for products and services and cannot move to another vendor without substantial switching costs, real and/or perceived.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendor_lock-in
Looking Back on Commodities
Once the standards were set, and the grid powered up, electricity finally established a transparent price - the hallmark of a true commodity.
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http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20050130#looking_back_on_commodities
Commodities, Railroads and How Sun Monetizes Java
What's really commoditizing? Bandwidth. Not software, not hardware, bandwidth. It's coming out of the wall in your house and office, just like a three prong outlet provides another commod...
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http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20040712#commodities_railroads_and_how_sun
Hardware's sinking beneath a software sea
As more software targets the operating system as opposed to hardware (or rather, hardware with a custom OS specific to that hardware), economics of scale develop around generic software.
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http://news.zdnet.com/2100-9595_22-985650.html
Focus of Startups
What is the point? Focus on what you are doing that is different. Listen to your core constituency that makes your site worth going to.
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http://www.personalinfocloud.com/2005/04/focus_of_startu.html
David Stutz and Software "Commodification"
The difference between a commoditized market and a non-commoditized market [...] is whether or not products within that market lend themselves to competition on the basis of features.
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http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archive/2004/03/09/86565.aspx
Goodbye PC, and welcome back proprietary hardware platforms to tie up hardware, software and content
The PC-centric model is disappearing as digital devices designed for specific purposes — such as digital cameras, cell phones, portable digital audio players, and portable digital video...
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http://www.siliconvalleywatcher.com/mt/archives/2005/05/goodbye_pc_the.php
Consolidation(CRM)- Yes, Consolidation(Content Management) -No!!
[The ECM and CRM markets] have similarly many players operating, same pressures and pleasure zones exist for both players , both spaces are increasignly seeing the platform players moving...
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http://123suds.blogspot.com/2005/06/consolidationcrm-yes.html
SUSE opens to yawns
Given the fact that it's a community that drives better in the case of open source, first-mover advantage may actually be more important here than in the commercial world.
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http://blogs.zdnet.com/open-source/?p=409&part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdblog
Financial Innovation in Perfect Capital Markets
Financial innovation serves to free what development economist Hernando de Soto calls dead capital. Any asset that must be held by a risk-bearing specialist in that asset is less "alive" ...
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http://www.techcentralstation.com/080805E.html
Standardization and competition
[Standardization of business processes] will on balance tend to corrode competitive advantages rather than provide a platform for creating new ones.
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http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2005/09/standardization.php
Distinguishing power from versatility
"The greater the versatility, the higher the abstraction, the less useful for the specifics. Saying you'll be everything to everyone, from "web presentations" to "interplanetary navigatio...
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http://www.loudthinking.com/arc/000571.html
Why features don't matter anymore: The new laws of digital technology
technical specifications are easily copied and replicated. As a result, they provide only poor distinguishing factors for consumers when it comes to choosing between different brands.
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http://pfeifferreport.com/trends/trend_userexperience.html
The Asian giants and the brains bazaar
For the US and Europe, increasing the numbers of science and engineering graduates seems a policy prescription for economic despair. Creative differentiation - not competitive confrontati...
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http://news.ft.com/cms/s/7978fcfc-e3ae-11da-a015-0000779e2340.html