Many software vendors are in their infancy. Yet these infants have predominant and bullying arms. They push their weight around with their unfair trade practices and they use their control to place long term licensing anchors on their customers. They use their controlling arms to force competitive businesses out of business and they use their monopolizing entry points to place free services in the hands of consumers to cripple their innovative competitors. The infant fears the unknown and attempts to destroy any and all alpha males that pose a threat.

So, the 800 Pound Gorilla attempts to build a house of stone with a fence of iron but in essence may be building a house of cards. The controlled market is built on a very young technology. The technology has weaknesses and many barriers. The weaknesses include many crafts that are candidate for automation. The barriers include high cost, complexity, and illusions of greatness with a future that is relative to mediocrity.

What happens when the barriers are removed? What happens when a word processor on the Internet works as well as an expensive and bloated word processor that must be bound to your physical computers? What happens when the operating system is light weight and is only a proxy to re-centralization of systems? What happens when software has the ability to be defined on the Internet by the business people that require the functionality? What happens to the Gorilla that has built a livelihood around a house of cards and the licensing anchors are blown away?

Richard is a practicing architect in the field of information technology. His primary focus is Internet enabled composite software that is available at http://www.netprocesses.com