Posted December 4, 200717 yr I really like Larry Dignan's posts on ZDNet, and his post today on the natural state of software markets (duopoly) is probably accurate, though I wish it weren't so. Customers lose in many ways when industries consolidate. Having said that, it's also nice to not have to contemplate a blizzard of choices when you just want to know whether to wear brown shoes or black shoes on a given day. Regardless of whether it's good or not, Larry identifies a slew of software (and hardware) markets that have been "duopolized." From among many: Enterprise software: SAP and Oracle. Sure, HP and IBM are rapidly beefing up their software units. But once that dance of music chairs ends a mid-level software company can take comfort (or not) in the belief that it?ll be a subsidiary of Oracle someday. Maybe. Or could there be an open-source pretender to this duopoly throne? And where is Microsoft in Larry's two-seated enterprise throne? ... Link To Original Article
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