Dan F

North West England

Solutions Architect

This sounds like a lot of utopian blarney to me. There are people in the business who know more about technology than me - anything to do with ipods, ripping music & films, high-end gaming machines, modded xboxes, bit-torrent etc etc ad infinitum. Does this mean they could have a positive impact on the provision of enterprise IT services to 10,000 people? Err, no! Give individuals and small groups control over technology and you will never see any manageable standard configs again! And you can forget five 9s availability when technology comes a strict 2nd in those peoples jobs compared to the core business. As for the decline in techie nerds, well its true that a deep understanding of technology is vital. However, it is also vital to be able to speak to people. Recent large project failures are due to tipping the balance too far in favour of the tech-ignorant project manager, but either extreme is no use.