Joshua Greenbaum has written an interesting article called “Platform Politics” on Managing Automation online. The article talks about the various platform wars being waged in the market. The big players are all trying to dominate with their platforms while everyone else works to integrate with them.

I thought this was interesting since we run into this frequently. Our customers are typically running SAP or Oracle and may have IBM or Microsoft platforms as well. Our position is to ensure an architecture based on a set of XML Web Services that is capable of integrating with any of these architectures since we acknowledge that our customer’s demands vary and seamless integration is key.

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