The Incredibly Shrinking Platform--and Price!
Ann Grackin - July 31, 2004

Introduction

When these technology waves occur, at the outset, there is never a 'whole solution', so people have to purchase a cluster of complementary parts to achieve the goal. Always, the solutions never quite catch up before we move on. As implementations role out and technology providers can fill out their solutions, the law of natural selection takes over, with the stronger, adaptable, nimbler and differentiated surviving and replacing...