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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.
The scramble of a thousand developer-tool startups is resolving into something duller and more durable: infrastructure priced, regulated and consolidated like the utility it always was.