Fubaredness Is Contagious

I have recently noticed that costs were no longer always touted as the main driver for cloud computing – some have been advocating agility as the primary reason (for example, see here). It’s one thing when this theme gets mentioned in a talk at a technology conference where a company is sharing their experiences. But [...]

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… And it’s not only because it’s often cheaper to own or use, but also because it raises the bar for every single piece of proprietary software – they no longer can get away with poor user interface or limited features like they used to. Proprietary software now has to beat and exceed open source [...]

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Today I would like to continue my never ending quest of finding parallels between IT and economics and social sciences. I will start with a preamble, but if you are already familiar with a concept of “operations alert” in context of IT, you can skip it.
Preamble
I have spent a big part of my career in [...]

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What we in IT call a “bad state” (as in “application ended up in a bad state and needed to be restared”) in economics is called “bad equilibrium.” Here is more on General Equilibrium theory.

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I generally disagree with people who believe in protectionism and try to create restrictions on outsourcing in any shape or form. This topic is very interesting to me, and I will probably write more about it in the future.
However, what prompted this post was a little story in WSJ from 5/16/2007 (page A19). BMW [...]

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