Software is eating the world. That’s what engineer/investor Marc Andreessen famously wrote nine years ago in a ground-breaking article in the Wall Street Journal.
Andreessen was merely pointing out that global business was entering a new phase. Instead of technology companies operating in the new world, and non-technology companies functioning in the old world, the former non-technology companies were now being run on software as the core part of their businesses (or delivered as web-based services).
