Sentence examples for commodity part from inspiring English sources
"The telecom industry has moved from utility to volatility, and it is difficult to survive in the commodity part of the business," he says.Ironically, MCI was devoured by the very competition it instigated.
What is the alternative?One strategy, described by Philip Evans, co-author of a book with the ominous title of "Blown to Bits", is to separate the information-rich part of the business from the commodity part, and sell them separately.
"They don't understand why anyone would want to use anything other than commodity parts".
Manufacturers pay hefty fees to license Windows from Microsoft, putting pressure on them to make computers as cheaply as possible using commodity parts.
Dell, boasting a super-efficient supply chain and increasingly powerful machines built with commodity parts, has become the downturn's hardware star.As a result, many of the Valley's leading firms are losing ground.
But in recent years, Sun has struggled to adapt as customers gravitated away from its high-end machines that use custom software and processors to cheap computers powered by commodity parts and free, open-source software.
They did it by taking full advantage of today's hyperconnected world: pulling commodity parts mainly from China and South Korea, using open-source software and collaboration tools and employing the design/manufacturing/assembly abilities of two companies in the West — DataWind and Conexant Systems — and Quad in India.
That was all about using commodity parts, such as Intel's processors, to knock down the price of computing power.
IBM and other buyers of commodity parts flocked to Future because it had a depth of inventory that its competitors wouldn't risk.
The Mini's replacement, the Nano, has a wheel, too, but it's built with a 60-cent chip from Cypress Semiconductor and commodity parts from Taiwan.
As Whitehurst observed during his keynote, the historical model of IT vendors developing solutions for customers is shifting toward customers solving their own problems using commodity parts.
