> The companies that win won’t be those with the most or even the best features. AI will democratize those. The winners will be built on a data model that captures something true about their market, which in turn creates compounding advantages competitors can’t replicate.
And that's why I think the future of the software industry is data-driven, and we will end up with another GNU-like movement around free and open data models/schemas. I think we already have a good starting point: Linked Data[1] and schema.org[2]
Open Science folks understood this fact around 2018 IIRC, and there are a couple of nice standards for encapsulating research data such as RO-Crate [0].
Moreover, the science folks are not a picky bunch and they tend to use what works well, whether it be CSV and XML. As long as there's tooling and documentation, everything is acceptable, which is something I like.
I totally agree and would like to shill for the FOCUS project - https://focus.finops.org/focus-specification/ - which is an open source project to normalize and standardize the billing format of cloud vendors and Saas vendors alike. It brings greater transparency and efficiency to understanding that massive cloud bill your company pays every month.
I've used this schema to merge together AWS, GCP, and Azure into 1 unified cloud bill, which unlocks a ton of understanding of where the money is going inside the cloud bills.
And that's why I think the future of the software industry is data-driven, and we will end up with another GNU-like movement around free and open data models/schemas. I think we already have a good starting point: Linked Data[1] and schema.org[2]
[1]: https://www.w3.org/wiki/LinkedData
[2]: https://schema.org/