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IT Growth: Exponential No More

Posted by timothy on from the doomsaying-or-duh dept.

BreadMan writes "The Economist has has an article about growth in the IT industry coming off a period of unsustainable growth. Compares IT to growth industries of the past like railroads and automobiles."

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  1. Re:Exactly. by Dolphinzilla · · Score: 5, Informative

    No big surprise - Management had to wake up eventually.

    In addition many computer systems and networks have reached a level of complexity that can no longer be serviced / designed / maintained by an MCSE or some kid who took a few HTML classes at the local community college. Its true that anyone can "throw" a network together - and as my boss often says, "when you want it bad, you get it bad..." At my place of employment, engineers are actively involved in serious systems design and modeling of our networks (before they are deployed) - they are not shopping out of a Black Box catalog and hoping it all plays together.

    The parent post makes a good point, and I would add the following - time for less quantity and more quality...