IT becoming a commodity is a common saying these days, in fact, I think
Gartner came out and said IT is not longer a strategic differentiator for
companies - meaning the playing field is level between companies with
respect to IT capabilities. If that's not an indication of IT becoming a
commoditiy I don't know what is. Will more and more things require less
and less custom design and coding? Yes. Will there continue to be
specialists? Yes.
> Well I've been in the IT industry for the past 13 years. From mainframes
to
> Dot Net.
> I've heard the story for many years now that IT or should I say
programmers,
> will not be needed in the future.
> I think for the at least the next 10 years, people are going to rely on IT
> prof. more and more. When I started hardly anybody knew what a programmer
> was. Now, it seems everybody is a programmer!
> I do think that there will come a time that the user will be able to put a
> software package together him/herself, but I really do think that will
> happen very soon.
> If I think about it, doing Dot Net at the moment was a bit of a learning
> curve and at present I can say that I dont even understand the half of it!
> and thats after 8 months...
> Chris
> > Hi,
> > There is an article entitled "IT Doesn't Matter" which argues that in
the
> > future, Information Technology will have the same ending as the
> electricity
> > and railways. According to Nicholas Carr, IT will be considered a
> commodity,
> > something which will not be able to lead to a competitive advantage,
> because
> > everybody will have it...like electricity..
> > He adds, that now there is a great enthusiasm about the expactations of
> the
> > IT, which enthusiasm, is similar with that of the past about the
railways.
> > What do you guys think? I am not in the IT field and it would be very
> > interesting to hear your opinions...
> > Thanks in advance,
> > Konstantinos
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