Software interoperability

Issue 287: Your moat is now a bridge

For years, the winning strategy in software was consolidation. Build the suite. Own the workflow end-to-end. Make it painful to leave. The walled garden wasn’t a bug—it was the business model.

That model is cracking. Not because the walls aren’t strong, but because the value is shifting to what flows between them.

What’s pushing this

Software pricing is mo…