I had a meeting with the IT dept at a decent sized company yesterday to talk about a web project and it occurred to me (not for the first time, mind) that IT departments are now simply in the business of obfuscation and self preservation rather than anything useful or value adding.
Increasingly good, increasingly cost effective and increasingly secure software is being deployed across the web through the cloud and these jobsworths are still talking about server and client models - I'm sorry, but Salesforce does not equate to voodoo. And the fact that Salesforce can be integrated with other platforms/apps does not mean it is inherently bad. In my world of getting things done and being helpful, it counts as a bonus that it can be plugged in easily enough.
And what is it with you enterprise IT types and .Net - it's gash! And it's expensive. Get with the programme and get on-board with PHP rather than priding yourselves on your refusenik status because you have handed over pots of cash for crap.
I content myself with knowing that I will have the last laugh and that you will find yourselves on an incredibly dull scrapheap unless you get a grip and embrace change.
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