There's nothing wrong with offering any of these things. Let me offer you a few observations that will let you see this from my point of view. Various Digital executives at an analysts' briefing, all making it clear that they saw the corporate intranet market as a market where you sold to the CIO and the IS manager, based on your ability to deliver complex projects that were judged on data processing terms. Both IBM and Digital pointed out that their theory is that IS is becoming more centralized again and this means department managers won't be making many decisions any more. By that theory, we're currently moving somewhere from the completely decentralized chaos of the mid-80's to a somewhat more centralized approach.
Users are willing to give up some autonomy for interoperability.
Besides, some of us are tired of being our own IS managers. The Internet is a highly personal experience and many users have very personal ideas of what they want to do and how to proceed. Vendors like IBM and Digital, with their direct sales force relationships with central IS, did get such sales as were available at that level. It would be too bad to see that happen here. It's also less likely since both Digital and IBM now market not only on their own, but through partners.