Many of the other functions, however, look familiar because of their similarities to e-business infrastructures from the dot-com era.

In the near future, many organizations will, for example, dispense with their own infrastructures for E-mail, backup, and security - and save costs by renting instead.

Building infrastructures in foreign countries (e. g. the Germans building railroads in the Ottoman empire) will furthermore increase the amount of resources that can be traded from said country.