Coming end of Enterprise software shakeup

Strategy + Business has a nice article on how Enterprise software is heading for a shakeup [Reg. required]

Five years ago, 11 companies controlled 90 percent of the databasemarket; now only six do. In business applications, the trend is evenmore pronounced: Seventy percent of the market is now controlled byjust 35 companies, compared with more than 120 companies in 2000. Suchhigh-profile deals as Oracle’s recent acquisitions of Siebel andPeopleSoft have left only two vendors to choose from, Oracle and SAP,for top-tier integrated suites.

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