基础设施和相关平台作为一种服务(即交付。,IaaS and PaaS) are becoming the new battlegrounds for the mega vendors who want to own the platform ecosystems that create the cloud applications and the business networks that connect the applications. SAP has clearly tossed more than just its hat into the ring wanting to capture as much territory as possible in the competitive land grab that is just beginning in this area. Over time, the emergence of integrated capabilities and interoperability will be good news for technology buyers, because they will help standardize and better manage the flexible procurement information architectures that we are advocating. Yet in the short term, this bottoms-up infrastructure overhaul isn’t of much use. So, many vendors are taking a leadership position in certain aspects of such infrastructure or focusing on the top-most business process aspects of such platforms.