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."

Comments

Underlings

[youthoftoday]

I for one welcome our new Web 2.0 underlings

Thank God

[daeg]

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!

Re:The web 2.0 cloud blaghosphere

[Anonymous Coward]

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!

Re:Mashups?

[discord5]

Exactly how are "mashups" a technology?

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.

Re:Automation is always a threat

[jollyreaper]

We had an employee here (a friend of mine) that quit. I replaced him with a series of scripts and now I 'do' his job and mine, too. "Go away or I will replace you with a very small shell script"

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.

Re:The web 2.0 cloud blaghosphere

[damaki]

The provider does not even has to sell it. Don't forget that we are in the golden leak-age.

correction

[zobier]

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. I was replaced by a series of scripts and all I got was this lousy T-shirt