The enterprise software market is becoming a battle of "platforms," big, interwoven networks of applications that form the basis of CIOs' architectures and attract smaller companies to build secondary applications that work with the big platforms. The leaders in the platform races are, of course, Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle. But the battle isn't just between these vendors says Accenture. The real battle is <A HREF="http://www.cio.com/blog_view.html?CID=17522">between vendor platforms and the Internet platform,</A> which threatens to blow them apart by becoming the dominant assembly line for software development and the distribution model for a much more fragmented set of software services that can come from any source.