Ron Schmelzer, a consultant with analyst firm ZapThink, just made a disturbing observation — the pool of new vendors in the enterprise software space seems to be drying up altogether. Out that what was once a highly entrepreneurial, diverse market of enterprise IT-focused vendors has now boiled down to domination by five large vendors.

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