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Software companies buying software: a story of ecosystems and vendors · Erik Bernhardsson

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Why software companies buying software from vendors is a beautiful thing and why the ecosystem will grow even bigger

Software companies buying software: a story of ecosystems and vendors 2026-02-25 Why are new startups growing so fast? Why is the wage distribution getting larger for software engineers? Why do I love infrastructure? Is open source dead? I think a lot of these things, and some more things, all have their roots in a big shift in how we build software. Or rather, how we buy software. Software development today is a lot about using the right vendors rather than building technology yourself. Just a random note: this blog post isn’t really about AI (though we’ll talk about it). And it’s also not ab

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