Mainframe COBOL » lock-in http://www.mainframecobol.info We know what COBOL stands for Sun, 05 Feb 2012 18:50:57 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 The Future Of Enterprise Software http://www.mainframecobol.info/2010/02/the-future-of-enterprise-software/ http://www.mainframecobol.info/2010/02/the-future-of-enterprise-software/#comments Mon, 22 Feb 2010 20:45:08 +0000 Mike http://www.mainframecobol.info/?p=291 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.

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