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Is Web 2.0 A Bigger Threat Than Outsourcing?
An anonymous reader writes "According to InformationWeek, Web 2.0 is even worse than outsourcing for IT jobs. The article talks about corporations that have laid off IT staff and replaced them with technologies like mashups and wikis that can help people get things done without involving IT. Most IT people still think Web 2.0 is an overhyped buzzword, but that might not matter: So many Web 2.0 apps are sold (or given away for free) by software-as-a-service companies like Google that people can bypass IT altogether, and IT might not even know until it's too late."
I for one welcome our new Web 2.0 underlings
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You mean other staff can start writing their own documents, wikis, etc and don't need me to re-install Microsoft Office three times a year? Thank God!
No! You don't understand: Web 2.0 will synergise key technologies into a mashup Wiki that will enable customers to drive their own solutions and manage SOA n-tier applications without any requirement at all for infastructure, oversight, management or maintainance! Using AJAX will save you 110% each quarter on IT spending. It will make you coffee, fetch you donuts and give you a blowjob! Web 2.0 is here to save the universe! Everyone get connected!
If you think that's neat just you wait for the symantic web on handheld supercomputers. I hear that will be ready only 15 years from now!
Gigantic robotic arms with huge potato mashers. Once every year they set them loose around the office down here, and everyone screams and runs. The survivors get a raise, the widows of those who didn't make it get a ham. Best teambuilding event ever, especially when you're screaming "Every man for himself!" at the top of your lungs while avoiding the masher.
Man, and I thought that was just an idle threat. You should get him a shirt that says "I was replaced by a series of scripts" and use his fate as a warning to others. Darth Vader ain't got shit on you.
Kwisatz Haderach
Sell the spice to CHOAM
This Mahdi took Shaddam's Throne
The provider does not even has to sell it. Don't forget that we are in the golden leak-age.
Stupidity is the root of all evil.
Exactly. Our small IT department is obviously better-equipped to deal with security issues than some little company like Google. We run Microsoft Windows so we've never had a problem with a virus compromising the security of our internal network. And by keeping our data in open formats like WordPerfect 5 (which is read perfectly by Microsoft Word) and now Microsoft Word, we don't have to fear that we'll lose access to our data when we upgrade.
(The fear of our data being sold is a red herring. We don't encrypt our email (or anything else), so if our network providers felt like collecting every last bit of data we transfer, they can do that already. We're a very trusting company!)
There are no certainties in this world but one: if the IT people are on our staff, they are trustworthy.
Me lost me cookie at the disco.