Rants and PontificationsRants and Pontifications.The Platform Effect- March 23, 2004 A new essay that uses Clay Christensen's conservation law for attractive profits to explain why software platforms are such nasty wads of code, and why they don't really succeed until they are commoditized....http://www.synthesist.net/writing/archives/000017.html Commodity Software- March 3, 2004 A ramble on what I've found out while researching the process of commodification....http://www.synthesist.net/writing/archives/000013.html |