People talk about software "technologies" and it is true, there is some technology underlying them, but its mostly economics. The nature of software with its m

People talk about software "technologies" and it is true, there is some technology underlying them, but its mostly economics. The nature of software with its multiple abstraction layers means that when the economics is "right" you can pretty much transmogrify anything into anything. E.g., you can setup a JS-based web server as a classic web framework serving good old html and thats not a joke, its reality. Is web software economics today any different than it was in the past? You bet it is.