自由のもたらす力は予算（お金）による力を超える

Freedom is More Powerful than a Budget

Sun社COOのJonathan氏のBlogより。
大企業のCEOやCIOに向けてのイベントで、一日半かけておこなったイベント内でJonathan氏自身がホストした内容を題名を下記にならべます。これを見ただけでもおおよその雰囲気がつかめると思う。

1. Free and Open Source Software is more alive than ever.
2. Java is more alive than ever.
2. And C/C++ is alive and well.
3. The bloom is off the rose with Red Hat.
4. We're not getting the message out about our newest hardware.
5. Web services may collapse under its own weight.
（６．がなかった）
7. Security security security.
8. Everything is global.

そして最後の結びの言葉

What's the net of all this? Architects and developers are growing in value and importance as the price of software declines. Strange side effect, but true. It's one reason why as a part of this year's planning activities at Sun, we'll be making a simple statement: the single most important horizontal market segment for Sun to serve is, in fact...

アーキテクトや開発者の価値が上がればあがるほど、ソフトウェアの値段は下がる。おかしなはなしではあるが、現実だ。