Cloud Computing: As vendors split and jettison, can Microsoft avoid the same fate?
October 20, 2014
Grazed from ZDNet. Author: Chris Duckett.
There used to be a time when an IT leader could sign one purchasing and support contract with a single vendor, and have all the computing hardware and software needed to conduct enterprise computing for the foreseeable future.
"Nobody ever got fired for buying IBM" was regarded as an axiom, and IT purchasers could get everything from mainframes, rack servers, thinkpads, and thinkcentres for corporate desktop needs, and everything in between…
It was an era where it made sense for those supplying computer equipment to integrate and upsell customers on as many products as they could manage.
Thus, we ended up in a place where it was conceivable, and often the reality, that a single IT vendor would not only sell hardware for datacentre, desktop, and laptop computers, but also have its own matching portfolio of software that included mail servers, office programs, communications software, and even operating systems and programming languages…
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