You’re not alone with that thought niggling in the back of your head…
October 20th, 2006 at 3:30pm |
I’m not usually one to just signpost you to other people’s blogs without adding my own thoughts but I can’t really add anything to Nicolas Carr’s latest blog entry which follows up on his ‘IT Doesn’t Matter’ paper from back in 2003.
I know he’s not alone in his train of thought as I’ve heard the same subject discussed many times between partners - it’s just that he’s blogged about it…
… excellent timing don’t you think Microsoft?
Posted in IT Market
[…] I’ve thought about this quite a bit and my conclusions are that this is a generic issue to do with new technology launches. The vendor always tries to convince us that we must upgrade or buy their latest offering and what why not? They’ve spent many years investing in it and bringing it to market and they believe in it. However, the end user is always sceptical and only the limited “early adopters” are going to get onboard. The mass adoption is going to come somewhere down the line (Gartner have attempted to quantify this and I blogged about this in a previous post). The situation is even more bleak if you read Susanne’s other post, which has an article on how thinking about IT strategically is a fallacy and it’s just a cost of doing business. […]
Vista and Office for Small Businesses - replying to Susanne’s and Vijay’s blogs…
Wow, I go on holiday, spend some time catching up on e-mail, and what do I find ” There’s a whiff of…