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title: IT commoditisation
date: "2001-05-03T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1829
description: I examine The Economist's perspective on the shift from hardware and software toward online services, suggesting that IT infrastructure is commoditizing while web-based services become the primary driver of value and profitability.
keywords: [it commoditisation, online services, hardware, software, economics of computing, web services]
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The Economist suggests that just as focus of the computer industry shifted from hardware to software, it is now shifting from [software to online services](http://www.economist.com/surveys/PrinterFriendly.cfm?Story_ID=568249). Which means that the computer (hardware and software) will commoditize and only web services will make money.