CIO Executive Edge: APEX technologies: they are not created equal, but they are equal to all others

The technology environment is becoming increasingly diverse, between new Internet based services, consumer devices, smart phones, new servers, new applications etc. Its natural to see these different technologies in a hierarchy with some at the bottom and others higher up the food chain. Every hierarchy has a top, an apex. For example, the lion is at the apex of the savanna hierarchy. As the apex, the Lion gets its share of attention. For example searching in the term ‘lion documentary’ produced more than 3.4 million hits on Google while the term ‘Zebra documentary’ garnered only 704 thousand hits a ratio of more than 4.5 to 1.