IDG Contributor Network: How software drives innovation and enables digital business

Twenty years ago, businesses and consumers were focused on the computer or gadget. Today, everyone recognizes that it’s the software – the platform if you will – where the greatest amount of innovation is occurring. Three keystone trends are making software the primary driver of business innovation and agility – hardware commoditization, cloud computing and open source.Since the invention of the modern computer, the hardware side of the technology drove most of the innova