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Replace IT? Not bloodly likely...
...at least in our shop.

Yeah, I can see it now. The business units are going to make IT decisions. Ok. We've been practicing this for the last ten years and have been left with the following result: we have four different database systems, mostly housing the same data in a different format, three different operating systems (not to mention differing versions of same - one of the vendors insists on using NT and nothing we can say will get them to change) and I won't mention all of the different applications, which do close to or exactly the same thing, that were purchased by the business units because they 'had to have them'. We're going to leave the technology decisions up to the folks who go with whoever bought them the best lunch last? Right.

We may not be doing application development in the classic sense, but someone's gonna have to make all of the fancy equipment/software/systems that the business units insist on buying work together.

We'll still be here...
Posted by: OldeTimeGeek   Posted on: 05/24/05 You are currently: a Guest | Members login | Terms of Use
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If Microsoft Windows still exists by then..  Jeff Spicoli | 05/23/05
Death of IT? NOT!  Unicornrider | 05/23/05
Wow! Are these CIO's that out of touch?  alterego_z | 05/23/05
In principle I agree  jorwell | 05/23/05
Now that's a scary thought...  Zen37 | 05/23/05
Nice study!!!!  gblumberg@... | 05/23/05
Huh, I got mine, didn't you?  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/23/05
False question used to slant poll...  No_Ax_to_Grind | 05/23/05
Yes of course  hipparchus2000 | 05/23/05
Microsoftware = IT Full Employment Act  Atlant | 05/24/05
Replace IT? Not bloodly likely...  OldeTimeGeek | 05/24/05
Outsourcing all things is a major disaster  manielse@... | 05/24/05
I agree...Outsourcing all things is a major disaster  jbegleyc@... | 05/24/05
Gartner & Breeding Lemmings  Eagle5017 | 05/24/05
Your right,, IT departments will change.  papatator | 05/25/05
These morons predicted the death of the Mainframe too  kwicke12@... | 05/25/05
IT departments in 2010  sumanmehta | 05/26/05
This is like saying we're heading for...  DancinKatieh@... | 05/27/05
This is laughable (and typical of Gartner)  dhammond@... | 05/27/05
Yes, they will  mikerault | 05/27/05
I'll bet on the real thing  pmilano | 05/27/05
I say yes we will exist  j.yiesla@... | 05/28/05
In the service industry - no doubt  d0rian9rey | 06/04/05
RE: Will IT departments still exist in 2010?  RyonanGT | 07/30/09

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