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Pure Play Maintenance Costs Consuming IT Budgets?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the is-your-IT-budget-being-eaten-away dept.

ContractualObligatio asks: "The Register asks the question of whether businesses are at risk of having no budget to develop code, from maintaining too many 'pure play' applications. What has the experience been among Slashdot readers? Are people spending too much time maintaining code and integrations because the business is adopting too many applications? Do IT teams have the time and money to actually improve and innovate the way their companies do business?"

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  1. pure play? by tepples · · Score: 4, Interesting

    The article doesn't define "pure play" applications. Is this a common term of art in IT? Google shows "pure play" defined on investing sites as a firm that concentrates on one type of product.