Whilst drowning myself in internet blogs I remembered once saying something a long time ago...
"The xxx is not Enterprise ready"
Replace xxx with whatever new gadget was coming up...iMac, psion, newton whatever was around in the 90s. This was used carte blanche as a pendulum axe which the hapless user would have to lay under should they want to connect their new shiny toy to the "Enterprise". 100% kill rate.
Recently I heard this repeated, yes I was ear wigging.
I am officially recinding my comment. Well amending. It probably was true in the 90s (when I said it!)
Now I believe the opposite is true.
"The Enterprise is not ready for xxx"
Far too often I hear my colleagues saying "no" to users requests. This is not due to anything other than they are asking us for something we don't know how to fit into our enterprise, or - God forbid, hadn't even heard of.
I now think that, in IT terms, the Enterprise as we knew it is dead. Or at least needs to be killed off. It is the shackle that holds IT back in the 90s. Yes we got to figure out what to do about consumer products and whatnot but unless we kill the Enterprise at least in our minds we are toast.
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