Christopher S. Rollyson

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Changing the Economics of Software

E-Business publicized the value of the Internet and how real-time information could make our lives easier. From technology's perspective, the Internet touched off a software revolution that is coming to a head. 

"Distributed computing" componentizes software to make it run better and easier to maintain. Thus far, distributed computing has been for the elite, due to its novelty and difficulty. That is changing, and the value of tomorrow's software will eclipse that of today's. 

The e-business boom has left Fortune 1000 IT managers with complex, difficult-to-maintain software. Worse, their customers' demand for seamless interactivity with their systems never stops. In many companies, maintenance cost takes budget from new development, sapping innovation. 

The technology that makes distributed systems a reality has matured, and the stage is set for early adopters to lay the foundation to change the economics of software. 

Changing the Economics of Enterprise Software Development has just been published. It explains the IT predicament that large enterprises find themselves in--and the challenge they face in changing how they develop and maintain software.(pdf, 85K)