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Lack of Innovation in IT Holding Companies Back?
bednarz writes to mention that Google's Dave Girouard, manager of enterprise business, is blaming a "crisis" in IT and the "insane complexity" of technology, among other things, for the lack of innovation that could allow businesses to grow. "A lot of things that people think of as core IT functions need to disappear into the ether so that the IT organization can properly focus on the value-added [activities]," he said. "Information security, as critical as it is, needs to be taken care of by organizations who live and die by it, who invest the money, time, resources and staff. Why should every company in the world have to build up their own expertise and have to maintain servers and provide security?"
Rent. I can move without much hassle, and when shit breaks, somebody else (who specializes in repair) fixes it. I also have much better landscaping than any of the homeowners I know.
And while the stock market appreciates on average 10%/year, the real estate market is only 6%/year. Equity in real estate is wasted money.
Rent.
A slashdotter who didn't build his own computer is like a Jedi who didn't build his own lightsaber.
I thought I'd point out this common spelling/grammatical mistake. Many people make it, especially in the online community; especially on Slashdot. I made this same mistake for years.
Lose =/= Loose. One involves no longer being in possession of something; the latter involves letting it go.
Before you mod me troll, please realize I mention this with the kindest of intentions. In general, people are less likely to discredit what you have to say if the syntax in which you express the thought is clear and of good form. Yes, if a person fusses over spelling mistakes they need a life, and their opinion and support probably don't matter. But one day, one of us may be the President and, given how history repeats itself, I'd hate for that person to make this mistake on national television by, say, correcting a child in class on how he spelled one of the words in his sentence on the chalkboard. We should be looking at how close we can get to being correct, not how many spelling mistakes we ought to forgive.