Standardization -The Secret to IT Leverage

John Gantz, and Vernon Turner

4/25/2008
(Original Publish Date: 3/1/2002)

Enterprise computing will continue its inexorable march toward industry standards, given the inherent price/performance, TCO, availability, and deployment advantages. New research from IDC confirms that this trend is not only a U.S. phenomenon. Results of this research with 340 organizations around the world about the benefits they see from adopting standardized systems and the pace with which they expect to migrate to them support these findings.