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Is Web 2.0 A Bigger Threat Than Outsourcing?

Posted by Zonk on from the need-to-change-the-shirt dept.

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."

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  1. Sophist writes words, BOO! by Austrosearch · · Score: 0, Troll

    Playing with words does not equate making sense. I am sure the author of the Article is quite proud how they created something out of nothing. Of course the side effects may be undesired, they may be the only real thing here.

  2. SPAM Troll Alert by littlewink · · Score: 0, Troll

    The posting is an attempt to gather clicks for Information Week.

    The article nonsensically claims that companies building web 2.0 apps are a threat to in-house developers. Their evidence: one company's newly-hired CTO who, upon taking charge, laid off 1 of 5 of his workers and contracted with a web 2.0 vendor to do some mashups.

    Peter DeBono was right: news media have a horizon of less than 24 hours and will do anything, _anything_, to make life-as-usual look like news.