| Excerpt from: Into the MyST |
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| April 30, 2003 | | Is it possible that the "chasm" is now narrower because of decentralized dynamics and no one recognizes this? | "But what Moore couldn't have forseen back in 1991 — and Microsoft's present-day strategists haven't recognized — is that in today's networked world, a visionary doesn't need the existing infrastructure of a large enterprise to impose adoption. A powerful interlinked trio of standardization, componentization and ubiquitous connectivity have drastically lowered the entry threshold for pioneering the commercial adoption of technology — particularly for grassroots, decentralized innovations like structured XML." Phil Wainewright | | |
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