Not really. The existence of a large market doesn't suffice to classify something as a commodity. The acid test is this: Two companies that each go out to the

Not really. The existence of a large market doesn't suffice to classify something as a commodity. The acid test is this: Two companies that each go out to the market and try to buy a thousand tons of wheat or a thousand barrels of crude oil, can reliably get the same result. Two companies that each go out to the market and try to hire a thousand programmers, even for the same job descriptions and salaries, will get substantially different results, because they will have different errors and irrational biases in their hiring processes.