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April 16, 2007
The Appliance Revolution
I recently came across an interesting blog posting from James Kobielus. In a posting on Wednesday, April 11, he declared "the appliance wars are upon us". [http://jkobielus.blogspot.com/].
I wouldn't call the trend to expand the reach of enterprise applications by offering them on a hardware-based appliance a full-out "war" - more like a "revolution". But I do agree with his assessment that "appliance hype is building to a fever pitch." That's because many enterprise software vendors, from the startups to the biggies, are embracing the appliance as an efficient way to get their applications to the most customers with the least headache. And it's working. More mid-size customers are able to implement BI solutions, and other enterprise applications, because appliances make it easy and painless to do so.
Integrated, plug-and-play appliances are a welcome sight to small and mid-size companies that don't have the IT resources to implement a full-blown, traditional BI solution. By decreasing complexity and lowering total cost of ownership, BI appliances are bringing BI to the masses. I say "vive la revolution!"
Posted by Diaz Nesamoney at April 16, 2007 10:30 AM
