Eight years ago, erstwhile Netscape wunderkind Marc Andreesen argued, in the Wall Street Journal, that software is eating the world. Soon, industry observers extended the concept, in an aphorism now often attributed to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, by insisting that every company must become a software company. But the IT sector never sits still for long, and the every-company-as-software-company truism has evolved to the point that it`s no longer strictly accurate. Businesses may still rely on the functionality encoded in applications. But with more and more data, workloads, application development, and industry clout in the cloud, the software gobbling up business models now comes in the...
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