Examples Of How Some Mid-Market Vendors Might Remain Within The Future Three (Dozen)?
Part Three: Made2Manage Market Impact and User Recommendations
P.J. Jakovljevic - July 18, 2003

Market Impact

While the ongoing consolidation frenzy is by no means the end of smaller vendors, the number of survivors is certainly limited to only a selected few dozen. Amid ongoing seismic consolidation tremors, smaller application vendors are left with only a few choices, such as going (or remaining) private albeit under a wealthy financial backer's wing that is also committed to invest in the acquired technology. Also, there seems to be hope for inventive smaller vendors, which will be focusing on a relatively small, tightly defined market with specific requirements that cannot be met with more generic 'large' products. Usually, these markets will be too small for the Big Five vendors to want to compete and will also have unique requirements which cannot easily be built into the more generic monolithic products offered by the Big Fives...