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Artificial Suite-ners
It is a given in technology when a vendor has weak components, it bundles them and sells them as suites. When SAP could not sell individual components when it first entered the US market, it sold "enterprise wide" suites. Microsoft Office bundling allowed it to offset initial feature deficiencies against point Lotus and WordPerfect applications.
'Tis the season for new suites. The phone companies have their triple and quadruple plays as they compete with cable companies. Cisco is trying "Unified Computing" as it enters the server market - combining processing, storage, network management and virtualization. Microsoft is introducing My Phone to try and tie its PC, Web and Windows Mobile assets together.
The questions with suites are as relevant as they were decades ago. What deficiencies are the vendors trying to mask in their bundles? How do we avoid lock-in scenarios previous suites have got us into?
And of course, are these suite-ners linked to carcinogens?
February 11, 2009 in Industry Commentary | Permalink