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The future ends at the firewall
The Financial Times repeats a theme I have written about earlier - corporations need to loosen up and move to a "business casaul" mode or miss out on a number of innovations being released by Google, Skype, Web 2.0. As Jeff Nolan writes, Enterprise Software vendors may also be getting wrong signals from corporate clients and not taking advantage of Web 2.0.
But ...it is good to see at least some pioneering CIOs take advantage of some of the innovations and Gartner will just have to talk more about the coming convergence between the enterprise and the consumer markets...
December 02, 2005 in "New Web" and enterprise computing, Industry Commentary | Permalink