Goyal talks about IBM and "lock-in"...
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From ComputerWorld.com: Exec Says IBM Seeks Simplification, Not Lock-in
Ambuj Goyal, general manager of information management at IBM, spoke with Computerworld last week after the company announced its Information Server bundle of tools. Excerpts from the interview follow:
Usually, when vendors create an integrated product suite, some users eye it warily as an effort to create lock-in and squeeze out best-of-breed rivals. How do you respond to those kinds of concerns about Information Server? We don’t do anything unless customers ask for it. They asked for simplification. They were spending time integrating my products rather than solving the [issue of] business value. I believe we are best of breed in all of the technologies today, and in the future, if we are not, we don’t force customers not to deploy best of breed. We interact and work with open standards.
From ComputerWorld.com: Exec Says IBM Seeks Simplification, Not Lock-in
Ambuj Goyal, general manager of information management at IBM, spoke with Computerworld last week after the company announced its Information Server bundle of tools. Excerpts from the interview follow:
Usually, when vendors create an integrated product suite, some users eye it warily as an effort to create lock-in and squeeze out best-of-breed rivals. How do you respond to those kinds of concerns about Information Server? We don’t do anything unless customers ask for it. They asked for simplification. They were spending time integrating my products rather than solving the [issue of] business value. I believe we are best of breed in all of the technologies today, and in the future, if we are not, we don’t force customers not to deploy best of breed. We interact and work with open standards.
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