The Future Of Enterprise Software
Posted by Mike on Monday, February 22, 2010 - 1 views
Vendor lock-in for software is coming to an end, but what comes next is far from certain.
For nearly two decades there has been a race to create customized applications that can fit a particular business unit’s needs. For many companies this was viewed as a competitive weapon, a way of adding efficiency and speed into a business process that captured a company’s specific needs.
IBM’s mainframes suffered more because of a concern over vendor lock-in than because of inefficiency or performance.
