Vendor watch: Amazon - A gift for disruption

Gareth Morgan
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Having transformed the way we buy books, and then consumer goods in general, Amazon is now blazing a disruptive trail through enterprise IT

For a company that makes just shy of $50bn a year, online retail giant Amazon manages to maintain an air of mystique. As R "Ray" Wang, an analyst with Constellation Research, puts it: "Whatever you...

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