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<rss version="2.0"><channel><title> Chronicles of a Wandering Mind - Latest Comments in EDS HP IBM and professional services in the IT management sector</title><link>http://mberkay.disqus.com/</link><description></description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 17:00:18 -0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Re: EDS HP IBM and professional services in the IT management sector</title><link>http://www.mberkay.com/2008/05/17/eds-hp-ibm-and-professional-services-in-the-it-management-sector/#comment-487263</link><description>just saw a blog post on BMC site &lt;a href="http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-bishop/cto/which-came-first-bsm-or-the-bsm-vendor" rel="nofollow"&gt;http://talk.bmc.com/blogs/blog-bishop/cto/which...&lt;/a&gt; that plays up being a "one stop IT shop" as the strength of BMC&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;"Skeptics will always say that there is no such thing as a ‘one-stop IT shop’ that can solve all your problems. That may very well be true.  But reality is that more and more organizations are looking to consolidate vendors and want integrated suites of solutions that do more and require less in terms of resource allocation, time-to-value, etc.  Our experience, and certainly our customers, tell us BMC delivers exactly that."&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;Well there are two one stop IT shops in town now as both IBM and HP have giant professional services organizations to complement their massive software portfolios. I think the ground has shifted. I wonder what their new tact will be</description><dc:creator xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/">berkay</dc:creator><pubDate>Sun, 18 May 2008 17:00:18 -0000</pubDate></item></channel></rss>