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Here's a list of discussion points for the session on commodification. Please feel free to add to this list:

• Standardisation in e-Research: what, when and how?
• 'Best of breed' markets or interchangeable components
• "What e-Research": making informed choices
• Grid Appliances: how can we package up Grid applications so that they are easily deployable?
• Services as commodities
• Where is the service-oriented vision going, and how fast?
• Use of commmercial systems vs. specifically tailored ones
• Getting tools to be reliable (commercial off-the-shelf vs. custom made)
• Cost (often hidden)of supporting less-than-reliable tools
• Amazon storage et al. - how can they carve out a niche and how are they different from the kinds of things we talk about, also Google dropping WS*

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