Thinking Analytically

In the latest round of tech acquisitions and mergers, IBM snatches Cognos. According this BusinessWeek article, this is a combination that might actually work. I think all of these big player acquisitions are creating havoc in large companies that have tried to standardize on enterprise solution providers. For instance, my company is clearly an IBM shop. No Oracle spoken there, but we’re a big user of Siebel and PeopleSoft. Oops, those are now Oracle products. Does that mean that there will be advantages in the future for Oracle users? I’m certainly no expert in the arena of enterprise software but it appears to me that the end of best-of-breed certainly has some downsides.

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