Bruce Perens categorised software (or technology in general) into differentiating, and non differentiating.

On the other hand there exist non differentiating technologies

Perhaps 90 of the software in any business is non differentiating.

Differentiating technology is what makes your business more desirable to your customer than your competitor's business.

Much of it is referred to as infrastructure, the base upon which differentiating technology is built.

It wouldn't hurt your business for your competitor to understand how every bit of your non differentiating software works.

Differentiating Equation (3) and use of the ideal gas law, formula_22, yields formula_23Equation (4) is often expressed as formula_24because formula_25.

From a research perspective, scientists began differentiating alcohol consumption among the various classes of beverages wine, beer, and spirits.

It takes a radiologist years of specialty training to become expert in differentiating the normal anatomic detail from the worrisome finding.

Any software that provides differentiating value to a non software company is built on top of one or more of those infrastructure components.

The new notion, set out in the report, of differentiating between the reality and the perception of security for the minorities can be misleading.

Ms. Telalian (Greece) said that Greek laws were prevented by the Constitution from differentiating between citizens and non nationals in the exercise of rights.

Embryonic stem cells have occupied center stage, chiefly because of their pluripotency that is their ease in differentiating into a variety of different cell types.

Recently, Brazil had been differentiating itself from the rest of the continent through its stable economy and vibrant democratic political system, both of which were helping the country s poor.

It is now known that the feeder cells provide leukemia inhibitory factor (LIF) and serum provides bone morphogenetic proteins (BMPs) that are necessary to prevent ES cells from differentiating.

The vast distances of space, the sophisticated technologies of space systems and the difficulty of differentiating between systems used for both civilian and military purposes can make verification complex.

Indeed, that competitor might be the best collaborator you could have, if the partnership is limited to working on your non differentiating software, because their needs are most similar to yours.

It also expressed concern that the use of skill level as a method of differentiating between categories in the classification needed to be explained more clearly to allow for consistent international application of the concept.

Al Qaeda, Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Sunni insurrection and the Mahdi army in Iraq are very different forces, but President George W. Bushâ s global war on terror prevents us from differentiating between them and dealing with them accordingly.

Keeping non differentiating proprietary is like re inventing the wheel, and corporates should understand how OSS on the other hand will help them reduce their expenses, and also end up having better infrastructure products since they will be collaborating to have better products