OSCON 2007 - Simon Wardley

Commoditisation of IT and What the Future HoldsSimon Wardley, COO, Fotango Modern application development consists mainly of "Yak shaving" or repeated mundane but expensive tasks. Worst of all is infrastructure, which is often under utilized, ubiquitous, and provides little or no strategic value at high cost. The time is right to change this, and open source is the key. From the O'Reilly Media Open Source Convention, July 27 2007.