commodity

Service and/or Commodity

Do we create services when we write programs, or are they commodities? Are we like window-washers in that our programs(actions) provide some services to the users? OR: are we like carpenters in that our programs(products) are sold and used by their new owners? Or should this be seen in different aspects: The act of programming being a ...

live market price of precious metals like gold,silver,platinum etc.

Is there a free web service, RSS or something where I can get the USA's quotes of live market prices of precious metals like gold,silver,platinum etc. I do not want a paid service to get those details. I wish to write a mobile application and I will have those values read into the application and do further calculation and even sell tho...

What is "Commodity Software"?

What is "Commodity Software"? (Part of the title in the article at http://valgrind.org/docs/newsome2005.pdf) (I'm not an english speaker, and the direct translation of "commodity" to my language does not make much sense to me in a software-context.) An example would be appreciated! ...

Commodity Solution Vendor Ranking

I want to know if there's a site providing comparison and ranking of commodity software solutions. ...