As anyone who watches too many 'homes abroad' television shows will know, you always pay more for the beach, more for a bijou residence in the quaint old town and more for sea views from the mountains. It's a case of location, location, location - as we all know.
But equally, in technology, given the birth of cloud computing, increasingly complex and sophisticated intelligence services and mobile ubiquity, location is no longer a definitive factor in terms of where data services happen, or indeed where users who compute choose to compute.
If there is a new location, location, location in technology circles, then it must surely be automation, integration and orchestration. Enterprise-level software organisations are reflecting this trend every day in terms of the technology platforms that they are now trying to develop, deliver and drive forwards to finesse.