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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of IT by Animats on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @12:39AM (#9843662)
"Information technology" is over a century old. IBM has been in business for more than a century. FORTRAN is over 60 years old. C and Unix are over 40. So is the Intel 8080 microprocessor. It's not like this happened overnight.

Both electric power and railroads were deployed faster.

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Re:The Unreasonable Effectiveness of IT by dvanduzer on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @03:26AM (#9844050)
I think of anyone identifying with "IT" and particularly the "IT Industry" as a snake oil salesman.

Technology stocks are staying hot, but nobody thinks of IT as effective. In anything that isn't a technology company, the IT department has rapidly become the slowest moving part of the company. Why hold on to the moniker like it means something?

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