Its best hope is that the solar cell industry doesn't follow the curve of the dram market it is often compared with--a once high-margin technology that turned suddenly, brutally, into a low-profit commodity market.

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To this end, members of the WEF YGL are creating technology blueprints, which use widely available commodity hardware and open source software as the building blocks of high-performing, cost-effective cloud solutions.

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Technology markets historically go through a natural cycle of evolving from artificially high prices during the early adoption phase to a commodity based price during its mainstream buyer phase.

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