Comments on: Software's 'stack wars'

Software companies used to sell on features. Now it's "stacks," or soup-to-nuts offerings.

[neilwd]

Best of breed - ancient history

The article talks about the large enterprise IT vendors' focus on "stacks" as if it's a recent rediscovery: but the truth is that "best of breed" strategies haven't been popular since the mid 1990s. That's practically ancient history in the world of IT. SAP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Sun, BEA et al have been playing the stack game since way back. All that changes is the labels on the boxes.

What's interesting to me, is for how long the tired and entrenched stack plays of these vendors are going to hold up in a world where enterprise customers increasingly look to the power of the network as the driver of value and innovation.

Yessir, in tomorrow's world value will come from leverage of software service networks, not software product stacks.

[fakespam]

Ellison is Satan!

Larry Ellison is Satan and a clone of Howard Hughes!

[ntis]

You have to pick a stack

You can't not pick one - and when you pick one, you are basing a lot of that selection on the guy at the top. Ellison, McNealy, or Ballmer?
http://blog.tallsails.com/2006/04/18/who-are-you-gonna-bet-on.aspx

[Thomas, David]

CNET, validate Stack Diagram

Enterprise Manager, is the administration user interface for MSSQL.

Because of that mistake, I have no confidence in the diagram.

You need to validate that diagram.

[mike ricciuti]

It's not a mistake....

Enterprise Manager is also the name of oracle's management tool.

[jrolin1]

link for your benefit

http://www.oracle.com/enterprise_manager/index.html

[rneubert]

Diagrams

These diagrams you have started incorporating with your stories are lame and, as far as I can tell, pointless. What are we supposed to get from them? Certainly not any spatial relations. A geek's dream perhaps but a reader's nightmare. Kind of reminds me of PowerPoint, also useless, except for those who can't read.