{"id":13,"date":"2006-02-16T09:46:34","date_gmt":"2006-02-16T16:46:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/wp\/?p=13"},"modified":"2006-02-16T09:46:34","modified_gmt":"2006-02-16T16:46:34","slug":"re-it-isnt-just-electricity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/2006\/02\/16\/re-it-isnt-just-electricity\/","title":{"rendered":"Re: IT Isn&#039;t (Just) Electricity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>O&#8217;Grady, Gillmor, and Farber talked about the &#8220;IT is electricity&#8221; idea <a href=\"http:\/\/gillmordaily.podshow.com\/?p=30\">on the current Gillmor Daily<\/a>. Farber has a good statement of the idea that goes (not an exact quote), &#8220;it&#8217;s not that IT people will disappear, it&#8217;s that they&#8217;ll be at a different location.&#8221; That is, to use the analogy, you don&#8217;t have the people who manage your electricity at the company, you have them at the power plant.<\/p>\n<p>Certainly. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.drunkandretired.com\/2006\/01\/31\/when-the-customers-say-so-what\/\">SalesForce comes to mind<\/a>. But my wondering still stands: will businesses be able to ween themselves from the level of customization they want in favor of the efficiencies of SaaS models? To use the analogy: in my mind, each company would want a different wattage for the devices they were hooking up to the grid.<\/p>\n<p>Or, more likely, and getting back to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/cote\/archives\/2006\/02\/it_isnt_just_el.html\">the original point<\/a> one company wants a toaster with two slots, another with 3, and some with 1. They all plug it into to the wall the same way, but they want their toast differently. So while you can get all the power technicians consolidated (thus saving money and increasing reliability through standardization), you&#8217;ve still got the problem of customizing how and why people are plugging their devices and desires into the wall. The same will hold for IT, except we might start just calling it &#8220;business.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>O&#8217;Grady, Gillmor, and Farber talked about the &#8220;IT is electricity&#8221; idea on the current Gillmor Daily. Farber has a good statement of the idea that goes (not an exact quote), &#8220;it&#8217;s not that IT people will disappear, it&#8217;s that they&#8217;ll be at a different location.&#8221; That is, to use the analogy, you don&#8217;t have the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-enterprise-software"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/cote\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}