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Published on: 11/3/2004
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"About 70 percent of vendors will no longer exist in their current form in a couple years," predicts William Clark, a research director at Gartner.Some will fail outright, others will merge, and some will be acquired.Therefore, IT managers must do their best to assess the vendors' technology, customer base and industry support, in hopes that the technology will survive via acquisition or merger even if the vendor does not.
But analysts Clark, Kozup and Wilson agree that there really is no choice but to take this risk.
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"For IBM, HP and CA, (the wireless functions) are not core to their business," notes Clark, because the market is still small.