Gartner CEO dusts off old themes in Symposium kick-off

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Bah, standards are NOT competitive.: First, your constant and non stop pointing to MS as the be all of everything wrong in IT is both wrong and BORING. You wanna see complex, try working with IBMs solutions for awhile. (Yes there really is a reason their largest income earning division is services.)

Second, demanding standards is all well and good, if your willing to wait a year or two for it to come about while your competition moves ahead. But it gives interoperability you say? Well, so does using a single sorce propretary vedor. (IBM, Sun, MS, take your pick.)

But it will be easier when the standards are in place. No, it will be out of date (from a competitive stand point) by the time there is a standard.

Look, I fully understand that IT people would love simple, interoperative systems. Heck, everyone would regardless of their field, not just IT. But that is not how a business competes.

Hey Joe IT, hows our competitive edge coming? Oh just wonderful, we are using the same thing everyone else is because we use standards. Ummm, Joe, how does that put us ahead of the competition? Joe?, Joe are you there???

You see, complexity only increases, in EVERY field of endevor. Cars are much more complex that they were in the past. (Ask any shade tree mechanic.) TV is much more complex than in the past. (Do I need a line doubler, do I need Dolby 5.1, do I need HDTV,etc.) Heck even building a house is much more complex than it was 20 years ago. What's the earthquake rating on that house? What new materials did you use to replace structual wood? etc.

The real answer of course is that your company learns to deal with complexity, or your competition will...; Posted by: No_Ax_to_Grind Posted on: 05/16/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use