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Software Buyers Discover They Own Too Many Tools
A decade of frictionless departmental purchasing produced portfolios nobody inventoried. The consolidation now underway is being run by procurement, not engineering.
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Sunday, August 16th, 2026 105 stories Independent & Reader-Supported
A decade of frictionless departmental purchasing produced portfolios nobody inventoried. The consolidation now underway is being run by procurement, not engineering.
Repatriation was dismissed for years as a vendor talking point. It is now a line item, driven less by ideology than by workloads whose usage stopped being unpredictable.