Punjab, April 9 -- By Rob Thomas | Senior Vice President, IBM Software and Chief Commercial OfficerARMONK, N.Y., April 9, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -There is a pattern we keep seeing in technology. When software moves from product to platform and then from platform to infrastructure, the rules change. At the product stage, control can feel like an advantage. Closed systems move fast. They tightly manage the experience. They concentrate value inside a single company. That approach can work at the product stage. But once a technology becomes foundational, once other systems, institutions, and markets begin to rely on it, the bar shifts. At infrastructure scale, openness stops being ideological and starts being practical.AI is crossing that threshold ...