Having seen many vendor presentations announcing new products and strategies recently, I’ve noticed a common thread. The IT world has embraced the concept of total multi-vendorism based upon agreed-to industry standards.
Corporate IT chooses vendors based not on incumbency but on the age-old metric of price/performance combined with ROI and total cost of ownership. Integration, legacy application encapsulation and database federation have become software mantras. Datacentre consolidation has become a business issue, not an IT nightmare. Evolving a corporation into the world of service-oriented architectures (SOA) requires corporate commitment to business process and organisational changes that may have a far greater impact than IT technology changes.
