Ronald Schmelzer
Ronald Schmelzer
compelled competition customers ibm increasing looks market noise product release sorts space
It looks like the market and customers have compelled IBM to release its own ESB-branded product as a way of offsetting the increasing noise and competition in the space for those sorts of products,
accepted becoming companies continue create developing face incentive widely
Going forward, I think there's little incentive for companies to create new IDEs, and even for many companies with proprietary IDEs to continue developing them in the face of what's becoming increasingly and more widely accepted as a 'universal' IDE for non-Microsoft environments.
business craft enterprise process together
In IBM's case, they repackaged their enterprise messaging capabilities together with some business process capabilities and standards-based interfaces and made it lightweight to craft their entry-level ESB.
choice greater loose reduced selection wins
And so, we'll have to see what wins the tug-of-war: greater vendor choice through interoperability and loose coupling, or reduced vendor selection for purposes of efficiency.
rapid
We see very rapid consolidation in this market.