Our choice of words in founding this publication nearly a decade ago were no accident. Throughout six decades of IT history, those who build and sell platforms wield technical power and have the best chance of extracting super-normal levels of profits from their customers, or if they
That is as true of Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Apple, and others who provide consumer-facing applications as it has been of IBM in mainframes, Digital Equipment Corp with minicomputers, the Unix collective…
