Decisions, decisions... They sure aren't easy, but it looks like deciding on an integration solution is about to get easier as the market starts to rapidly consolidate around the industry's strongest solutions. Or are they?
In a consolidating market, you have two options, says Dave Bennett, CTO of Axway Incorporated. "You decide to fill in every component and every checkbox from a consolidation perspective," he said. "Or you decide to specialize."
The recent buy-out of webMethods by Software AG was an example of specialization, said Bennett, and it demonstrated that Software AG was looking for a way to compete with the Big Four (IBM, Oracle, SAP and Microsoft) by combining its solution with that of webMethods to form an overall SOA infrastructure. And specializing components toward specific business problems is a way for companies like Axway to differentiate their offerings as well.
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