Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Software Goes Free

Phil Wainewright writes: "The price of software is inexorably grinding towards zero. Software is becoming infrastructure, and that infrastructure is progressively becoming commoditized. A key part of this evolution is the abstraction of application logic out of software and into standards-compliant XML documents. Once all of the identities and rules that define a set of processes (ie an application) can be expressed as XML, then creating or modifying an application becomes an editing task rather than a programming job. That editing task will still have to paid for, and it might well accumulate intellectual property of some value — but the money will not go to software developers. Some software experts will earn a living from operating the infrastructure that processes the XML documents. But the infrastructure itself will be built with open-source software." and comments to this post on rajesh's blog are "software is not going to be written in the future but assembled. Like a car in a factory applications are going to be assembled" and "Customers themselves can create their own application".
Hey But i am a software developer and also read the book "Who Moved My Cheese?" so what should i do now? shall i stop programming and learn the XML syntax for software asembling? though i know a bit.

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