“Ten years ago these guys would be enterprise application vendors,” says Ron Schmelzer, an analyst with ZapThink. “Now they are service-oriented, composite-application vendors. It is noteworthy. It shows where the industry is headed.”

Schmelzer says other vendors, including Oracle and SAP, are breaking their application logic into components instead of assembling them into one massive application.

“The days of coming up with new applications and selling multimillion-dollar enterprise applications in monolithic blocks – I think those days are over,” Schmelzer says.

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