Once any IT vendor gets into a monopoly position, or even a position of significant leverage, it tends to maintain the price of its product and seek to commoditize everything around it. The battle plays out on your network. With software vendors, if their sales are climbing then their unit costs are definitely trending down, but the customer rarely sees any benefit from this. This is one of the reasons that Open Source is important and why corporations really should have a policy of using it to some degree - and I'm not just talking Linux here, I mean the LAMP stack plus the JBOSS stack plus a little bit of Open Office plus anything else that can deliver benefit. It will help to keep the vendors of proprietary software honest - and incidentally, a good deal of Open Source it is quality software.
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