The Engine That Drives Success

"And what about Web services, which Carr says will further commodify software? Evidence to date suggests the opposite. This revolution in software is changing the Web from a medium for presentation of information (that's what HTML was about) to a computational platform. Yes, the Net is becoming an infrastructure, but a programmable one! This will create infinite opportunities for custom software development, new business design and competitive differentiation. Software companies in the future will build components, enabling their customers to deploy custom functionality."