Every self-respecting technology vendor these days not only vigorously deplores complexity but also claims to have a solution, and a suitably dramatic name for it to boot. Thus, Hewlett-Packard (HP) talks about its vision for the "adaptive enterprise", helped by HP simplification software called OpenView. IBM trumpets the dawn of "on-demand" IT for companies through IBM'S "autonomic computing" architecture. EDS, an IT consultancy, offers the "agile enterprise". Hitachi has "harmonious computing". Forrester, a research firm, suggests "organic IT". Sun tempts with a shrewdly mysterious name, "N1". Dell has "dynamic computing" and Microsoft flaunts the grand-sounding "dynamic systems initiative".
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