Why IT Professionals Aren’t Monogamous

Editor's Note: Alexander Haislip is a marketing executive with cloud-based automation server startup ScaleXtreme and the author of Essentials of Venture Capital. Follow him on Twitter @ ahaislip.
Pity the enterprise software Conglomerate, its salespeople abandoned at the altar, its customers fleeing from committed relationships. Shed a tear for the server maker, no longer Able to lock-in long-term sales, support and service engagements. Their customers are cheating on them with sexy new startups.
Today's IT professionals are Veritable Libertines, swapping services and systems around like priapismic satyrs at a techno-Bacchanals. What's worse: management condones this kind of behavior by pouring even more money into IT budgets.
I blame easy-on SaaS-ified software, give-it-away mobile apps and no-commitment cloud infrastructure. They've seduced IT professionals with Their breezy bohemian attitudes. They've undercut the high moral fiber That the established enterprise vendors have long embodied vis-à-vis mutual commitment and connubial sales agreements.
Aspersions, I cast them:
Software-as-a-Service
We're fortunate That this nasty bit of business has not penetrated every aspect of enterprise IT. Its lascivious invitation to IT professionals simply Could not be more direct: "pay-as-you-go." How slatternly Such a proposition goes unchecked by the authorities, I know not.
And the companies engaged in Software-as-a-Service do so without the proper courtship rituals of a Well-Trained enterprise sales team. It used to be accepted That Could IT professionals expect months of meetings, calls and presentations before getting down to business. Yet these Software-as-a-Service companies fully embrace the concept of Quicumque vult, Their conducting business with whomsoever should encounter their website.
And the awful acronymization! Oh, how They do Pronounce it. "SaaS." As though referring to an unmentionable anatomic. Might have connotations Insouciant been nipped in the bud by the acronym simply Rhyming with "face" or "bouillabaisse." Surely a Cunning linguist Might have avoided double entendre Such a gouache. Meditate on that, Mr. Benioff!