An Ounce of Prevention Averts a Pound of Obsolescence

At a time when software application companies are being acquired at an increasing rate, the chance of your company’s software products being affected is very likely. Since 1999, organizations like IBM and Oracle have been on a steady upward trend of acquiring different software and solution companies. Oracle acquired 13 organizations in 2005 alone, and IBM acquired 10 during the same time. There is no reason to believe that this trend is going to end any time soon. The more companies merge or are acquired, the higher the chances that the software your organization uses, is or will soon be obsolete. In addition to the mergers and acquisitions of software and product companies, hardware organizations like Microsoft and Oracle are making the decision to service newer versions of their products, despite the amount of companies that are still running older versions.

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