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Our web 2.0 freedoms can easily turn into IT chains.
Byline: david tebbutt
Our Web 2.0 freedoms can easily turn into IT chains
David Tebbutt
In Web 2.0 circles, you often hear the "IT is dead" theme, or meme, as they like to term it. Or you may hear "IT will become a utility" as an alternative -- the idea that IT will provide the platform and users everything else.
Enthusiasts for user-driven computing speak of widgets and plug-ins and software as a service (SaaS) and truly believe they own the future. No more waiting for IT. No more botched implementations. Users know what they want and they're going to make sure they get it.
Users speak of saying goodbye to "bloatware" and just getting their 20% subset of, say, a spreadsheet application from a low-cost or free supplier. With some software clearly bloated -- so the supplier can extract a periodic harvest revenue from upgrades -- this appears to make sense, although it does rather assume that everyone wants the same 20%.
But even though a lot of desktop software is not bloatware at all, it is attacked just the same for being "proprietary" or "closed" or whatever. Not all programs can be driven from a web server. Some can only deliver results as desktop clients, even though they are happy to share their inputs and outputs with the outside world. You only have to use some popular blog or wiki software to see how unresponsive some SaaS implementations can be.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Our web 2.0 freedoms can easily turn into IT chains.