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Barrier to Web 2.0 — IT Departments

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bofh-gone-luddite-or-lazy dept.

jcatcw writes "Wikis, social networks, and other Web 2.0 technologies are finding resistance inside companies from the very people who should be rolling them out: the IT staff. The National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA) in London had to bypass IT to get Web 2.0 technologies to end users. Both Morgan Stanley and Pfizer are rolling out Web 2.0 projects, but it took some grass roots organizing to get there."

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  1. Duh.. by TBerben · · Score: 5, Funny

    Of course the IT 1.0 staff is causing trouble, companies need to upgrade them to 2.0 first!

  2. Re:Possible Explanation by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Your problem is that you need to kill the BOFH. You will need a silver stake, electrical gloves, KCN pills, a SCBA, 20 oz of deionized water blessed by a geek, and The New Testament. Don't enter at night, and don't expect to catch the BOFH by surprise. They don't sleep, they lurk. If you can sabotage the coffee and soda machines you can drive them out of their lair. Otherwise you may have to defeat their army of PFYs. Good luck! And if they capture you and decide to Megger your balls, use the cyanide pills.

  3. Re:The other side by Basehart · · Score: 5, Funny

    FWIW seeing IE7 and web 2.0 in the same sentence makes me want to drink Draino. Good luck.