“As I argued when ardent BlackBerry loyalists deluded that IT departments would never allow employees to carry iPhones due to security and integration issues, IT departments hold about zero sway within large corporations,” Rocco Pendola writes for TheStreet.
“No offense if you work in IT, but you’re ultimately a grunt,” Pendola writes. “Executives, as a result of their own and their employees’ desires, tell IT departments what to do. It’s the IT department’s job to get it done; no whining and no questions asked.”
Pendola writes, “We saw it with RIM. We’re seeing it with what I really think will prove to be an exodus away from the unwieldy and unloved MSFT Office and Windows juggernaut.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Readers “Dominick P.” and “eldernorm” for the heads up.]
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