Agility: can you afford it?

Every new generation of solutions that comes along - from yesterday's CORBA to today's cloud -- promises ever greater "agility." But it's going to cost ya. Geek & Poke's Oliver Widder hit the nail on the head a couple of years back on this point:

From Geek & Poke http://geekandpoke.typepad.com/geekandpoke/