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That's Not What I've Heard JetBlue Say . .

"They said they wanted to consolidate little MS servers onto a Windows Mainframe and get rid of non-Windows stuff"

Um. You may be right, but that's not what I heard the JetBlue CEO state. He maintain's JetBlue is a 100% M$ shop.

Looks like at least part of the consolidation is going very well:

http://www.microsoft.com/resources/casestudies/CaseStudy.asp?CaseStudyID=13932

Outside of having previously implemented SAP, home much outside technologies for what I'll call core software requirements do you think M$ uses? I'd guess they use very little. How much do you think IBM uses or HP? Probably more but not to any great extent.

The jist I got from the original commentary was that a company should second-source as much as possible for the sake of COB (Continuity of Business) et al, which I think is ludicrous.

Let's assume for a moment that JetBlue is being above board. How much benefit to its IT bottom line do you think it makes to not have to pay tons of money from all sorts of vendors for mtc and support alone. No extra $ to Oracle, IBM, PeopleSoft, CheckPoint, intranet portal vendors, CRM, Novell, OLAP et al. That would add up to a ton of money.

Yet. I'm not suggesting every Fortune 500 company should ditch their IT software vendors and run over to M$. But there's certainly a lot of money a growing startup like JetBlue can save by going with a single source vendor like M$. Some day not too far in the distance future a company will be able to acquire "enterprise ready" OS technologies for 80-90% of the stack I'm talking about. It's getting close.

And in most cases companies will choose to is willing to not go with an HP or IBM for in-depth product support for the OS stack which cost a boat load of money but there will be similiar type savings to be had in these cases.

Posted by: jjworleyeoe   Posted on: 06/18/04 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use

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