Misanthropyst digs up a clarifying quote from the Pepsi Man who married the boss’s daughter:
I think we’re going through more than just a cyclical change. We’re going through a systemic, secular change in high technology. We saw, in the 1990s, the commoditization of hardware. Now, we’re going to be seeing the commoditization of almost everything, including software and services. This makes a lot of sense because, as the technology world moves from being computer-intensive to communications-intensive, you have to have open standards, which means innovation is going to have to take place in different parts of the value chain.
Any questions?
(Sorry, but Sculley didn’t appear at Bloggercon)