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Survival of the Fittest, the Smartest, or Just the Most Back Stabbing

Enterprise Software Companies are always at war with each other.  It doesn’t matter if they are the largest Enterprise Software Company or the most profitable Enterprise Software Company, the competition is fierce.  Some Enterprise Software Companies determine where their product or products are most lacking.  Then these companies go out and purchase a smaller company that has the functionality to fill the gaps in the Enterprise Software Company’s product.  One case in point is Oracle’s acquisition of PeopleSoft, Siebel, J.D. Edwards, need I go on?  Then, there are Enterprise Software Companies that determine where their product or products are lacking and they develop these products with their own resources.  A case in point here is SAP.  However, SAP acquires companies too, but not at the rate that Oracle acquires.  It doesn’t really matter if an Enterprise Software Company acquires their functionality or builds it, as long as all of the functionality is seamless.  Seamless functionality has the same look and feel.  Enterprise Software Companies, like just about any other company, have a common goal.  They all want to get ahead of the competition and gain a larger customer base.  That’s not a bad goal especially when economic downturns occur.  During an economic downturn, the company with the most customers and the largest capital reserve will persevere.  Unfortunately, those Enterprise Software Companies will a small customer base and little reserve capital are more likely to either be swallowed up by larger Enterprise Software Companies or go under.  It’s simply Darwin’s survival of the fittest.  And every so often it’s not the fittest smartest companies, but the more back stabling or calculating companies that rise to the top.  Every Enterprise Software Company wants a piece of the profit and they all feel they deserve it.  They probably do deserve a piece of the profit, but most of the profit typically ends up where it always does, which is in the hands of the big businesses.  Small Enterprise Software Companies always have a more difficult job to do.  They have to prove not only their product, but also their company.  The large companies already have well known established names for themselves.  The small companies are typically still looking to make a name for themselves.  Small companies are generally more successful when they carve out a special niche that makes them unique.

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kristine H