For all the talk of new technology and pace of change, the real pace of change is incredibly bad. Conventional wisdom equates change with the constant appearance of new technologies. Real change is seen in technology that increase productivity at the commodity level. The desktop is the commodity and applications are a response to peoples need to process information. The integration between the two is pathetic Other than at a superficial level - quote whatever new schemes you like - there is no linking between how the desktop manages and represents its information and the applications that people use other than through manual labor. It is in the interests of any company who controls a market to keep the pace of change slow, is Sun the one to break this cycle?
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For all the talk of new technology and pace of change, the real pace of change is incredibly bad. Conventional wisdom equates change with the constant appearance of new technologies. Real change is seen in technology that increase productivity at the commodity level. The desktop is the commodity and applications are a response to peoples need to process information. The integration between the two is pathetic Other than at a superficial level - quote whatever new schemes you like - there is no linking between how the desktop manages and represents its information and the applications that people use other than through manual labor. It is in the interests of any company who controls a market to keep the pace of change slow, is Sun the one to break this cycle?