CityJava aims to communicate the bottom-line benefits of the platform, especially those that create competitive advantage in the corporate world. While always interested in, for example, the latest JavaBeans TM component, the group also focuses on the business problem it may solve. CityJava shares a commitment to open standards, cross-platform solutions and solid code. He argued that we are in a new generation where people realize that they want business and personal relationships on the Web without having to negotiate technical responsibility. And the only way to achieve this is through open standards.
Businesses face a problem of complexity, which is both a blessing and a curse.
And so on. Metcalfe's law says that the value of the network rises as the square of the number of participants. The more people you have, the greater the value. If every party has to have a relationship with every other party, then the cost rises as a factorial of the number of IBM's Simon Phipps explains the importance of shared standards participants. You quickly discover that the cost rises to a point that I describe as entropy death.