Summary: Another vendor has stated that growth and license revenues in the mainframe arena are softer than expected. Shares of Merant
(NASDAQ: MRNT), the provider of PVCS, a major software configuration management product (acquired from Intersolv), in addition
to other software, have dropped more than 24 percent
... The analogies to "pouring concrete over the users' feet" or "being as flexible as a PVC
pipe after the glue has set" have become proverbial by now. ...
Summary: Very few companies really run standard software applications as 'standard' products, since every business changes constantly.
In fact, these companies have found that the agility they wish to attain is in direct conflict with the rigidity of their
enterprise systems.