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It all fits.

Software from a single vendor known to work together well. Or, All Microsoft, all the time. No bits and pieces, and software "known" to be comfortable to users supplied without great difficulty to central IT.

That's making the "problem" of IT go away.


As you wrote:

"Look a bit more carefully yet and you?ll notice that every decision touted in the case study ultimately depends first on the assumption that the desktop OS is Windows and secondly on the assertion that the Microsoft solution is preferable because Exchange and Office are functionally integrated."


The use of Windows and Office, especially, are good, easy assumptions. You (and I) are observing that no one was ever fired for buying Microsoft.



The significance is not that one more large customer has accepted the "simple", widespread solution. It's that IT is evaluated not on the basis of cost (within limits) or performance (again within limits), but on the ease of making the problem of providing ordinary functionality go away.

No search for innovation. No high priority given to cost comparisons. Just: what IT can do is already known, and the issue is the easy way to do IT.


That's not an endorsement. It's an observation.

Posted by: Anton Philidor   Posted on: 11/26/07 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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