Company Executives telling Software Makers:

We use to hear all kind of news, all kind of trends in IT (like Open Source for example), all kind of extraordinary features, inventions, etc... The question here is: what do all these actually MEAN for a Corporate Structure? What do all these new trends actually DO for the Company that is using the final product?
The message Company Executives passed on to Software Makers is: "We need software products that DO THE JOB". They have to work and they have to complete the required tasks as good as possible, no matter the "trend" or the "fancy" in it.
There it is another Idea here: cost. Companies no longer have the time and money to invest in software systems they used to have a while ago. So, make it fast, cheap and doing the job... Hmmm.... Wasn't it like this all the time? What's new in: "fast, cheap and do the job"?

http://www.fortune.com/fortune/fastforward/0,15704,1058043,00.html?cnn=yes