Meta Group's Raphael believes it's alive and well, and - while its deployment is changing, with many companies looking to consolidate servers for example - it is now being used as a base for that most modern of business models, ecommerce.
He urged companies, as Oracle itself has done, to consolidate their IT operations onto fewer databases and to quit customising packaged business application software. The company claims its database products are more reliable, secure and scalable...
The consolidation is a logical one for IBM because the combination of collaborative applications and portals is potentially more appealing to customers than standalone collaborative software, said Stephen O'Grady, an analyst at RedMonk.
This was one effect of cable industry consolidation in the 1990s that saw NTL acquire a number of other providers and try to marry various systems and call centres. Our trajectory now is for the best IT in terms of total cost of ownership and what...
SurfControl has snapped up email and web security company BlackSpider in a further sign of continuing consolidation in the security space. But Jay Heiser, research VP at Gartner, told silicon.com it's also an area where this kind of consolidation...
The CRM software supplier market in Western Europe is quite consolidated, and another consolidation wave is on the way, which will affect SMB software suppliers as well, the analysts predict. Smaller businesses tend to have relatively standard...