In particular, Oracle's new Exalogic Elastic Cloud is "very similar in concept, but different in implementation" compared with the combined offering from GigaSpaces and Cisco, says Shalom.
Nick Vitalari and I write about the impact of business ecosystems in our new book The Elastic Enterprise and as ARM represents a very interesting case of an ecosystem at work, it might also illustrate some truths about how the new business environment operates.
The problem with taking an elastic approach to the labor market is that very few professional services firms really know how to manage freelance labor over time.
That has already begun, in the sense that apps developer communities are very low friction forms of commerce, a topic Nick Vitalari and I addressed in The Elastic Enterprise.