"The New Barbarians"

Pardon me if you feel deja vu when you read this Forbes article. It captures what I have been saying for over 18 months now. Here, Here, Here, Here , Here

"...Coleman is one of dozens of new barbarians plotting the Cheap Revolution, the wholesale shift by corporate customers and techmakers to cheap chips and open-source (often free) software such as Linux. They are embracing simplicity, unlocking prodigious new power and cutting tech costs by up to 90%, threatening the Silicon Valley plutocracy: the proprietary gear, "closed" software, redundant backup systems and fat profit margins of incumbents like Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, Cisco, EMC and other blue-chip nameplates."

And the author does not  even begin to talk about offshore and rural impact on outsourcing. VoIP on telecommunications. Third party maintenance on software. SaaS on all kinds of application software.

Having said that, markets and customers usually move slower than what industry observers usually think. They are loyal to brands, have internal inertia etc.

40 years after the Japanese invasion started, do not GM and Ford continue to lumber along?