news.com.com — Gartner analysts on Monday predicted a large-scale shift in technology influence toward consumers and away from central corporate IT departments. The corporate technology research company this week is hosting Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in Orlando, Fla., where analysts are presenting research on the "consumerization" of IT.
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nanostuffOct 10, 2006
Interesting times ahead, though I didn't care much for that article.
jg5985Oct 10, 2006
No matter how much the end user will be taking on portions of the IT role they will always want (need) someone to fix it WHEN (not if) they f**k it up.
antimeOct 10, 2006
Mr. \, comment dug down due to being able to spell and use 'laissez-faire' and yet somehow not knowing what the word "loose" means. Please return to english class.
aroedlOct 10, 2006
Consumer-led IT, eh? Well, dear Gartner analysts, tell that Google and watch carefully for their reaction. Who is the "consumer" you're talking about? The in-house user or the customer of a company? I just can't see a Google secretary or one of Googles customers in the data center with 100k servers.Gartner is almost always far away from the reality.
clp727Oct 10, 2006
That happens multiple times on a daily basis!
dredOct 10, 2006
I agree with that. It seems that users today also can't even run simple tasks from there computers that they do not do on a regular basis. That is why IT is always going to be needed to fill the gaps between what people regularly use and what they don't.
bobothnOct 10, 2006
hell mine cant even turn on a monitor.
ryosenOct 10, 2006
"a large-scale shift in technology influence toward consumers and away from central corporate IT departments."It's called "Christmas".
bloodmoneyOct 10, 2006
Every notice how every article that quotes Gartner is full of s**t? Who are these f**king morons?