A surprisingly good article on eWeek is harshly critical of the iPhone mostly because of security issues though, they admit, Information Technology experts have a logn way to go before they can point an accusatory finger.
The net is abuzz with discussion about whether the iPhone will mix with enterprise IT departments.
It doesn’t matter really.
Today I ws in a big corporate building and saw lots of gadgets. Mobiles with cameras, USB connections for data and charging, smartphones, MP3 players (all iPods oddly) and PDA gadgets. And none of them were “officially supported”.
Back in my heady corporate IT days, it was possible for our desktop support people to say to managers and senior managers a hearty “No” when they asked for data syncing or software for their Windows CE or Palm devices.
Entirely different story when you get to Directors and Vice Presidents.
In my experience, corporate IT stands for “Inhibiting Technology” rather than “Information Technology”. I had a light-hearted debate at an awards ceremony with a high ranking IT bod in InvestNI whose policy was to limit and prevent the spread of gadgets in the organisation.
But one thing is true, if the users want it, they’ll get them anyway. And not sync them with their corporate desktops and end up perhaps carrying two devices. One of which they use and one of which they just carry.
IT should spend as much time worrying about:
“insecure wireless access points, tape backups disappearing, wrapping your newspapers in customers’ personal financial information, and stolen laptops.”
For my part, I want one. I’m going to get one. And damn any IT guy who thinks he can tell me what to do.
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