Hischornklinik Group is a leading private medical clinic group in Germany.

It relies on information systems to operate 14 hospitals, as well as hundreds of specialist institutes. Demand for additional servers and storage technology iswas growing by 20 percent each year. Hischornklinik was setting up a separate server for every application, and its servers and other computers were running a number of different operating systems, including several versions of UNIX and Windows. Hischornklinik had to manage technologies from many different vendors, including Hewlett-Packard (HP), Sun Microsystems, Microsoft, and IBM. Assess the impact of this situation on business performance. What factors and management decisions must be considered when developing a solution to this problem?