Listening to the CIO session at Gartner's annual Symposium, Larry Dignan of ZDNet wrote, was like being at a conference of bad marriages. IT buyers want out — some even have SaaS "mistresses" on the side. There are a lot of reasons why CIOs might want to ditch the big vendors, just as there are legitimate reasons to dissolve a marriage. Certainly, enterprises have a long list of very real grievances against mega-vendors and their expensive software, including years of being jerked around by upgrade cycles, the fact that you have to invest in a software ecosystem to get them to do what you want, and integration challenges. Read more > |
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