Comments on: Gartner Gets That “The Technology Platform of the Future” is Diffuse http://mrpogson.com/2012/08/01/gartner-gets-that-the-technology-platform-of-the-future-is-diffuse/ One man. Closing, all the windows. Wed, 22 May 2013 04:02:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Chris Weig http://mrpogson.com/2012/08/01/gartner-gets-that-the-technology-platform-of-the-future-is-diffuse/#comment-92864 Chris Weig Thu, 02 Aug 2012 04:48:53 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=13545#comment-92864 Its not 100 percent strange. A lot of people require a tech of some form to get a PC working.

These people are not the ones Mr. Pogson calls “least sophisticated”.

]]> By: oiaohm http://mrpogson.com/2012/08/01/gartner-gets-that-the-technology-platform-of-the-future-is-diffuse/#comment-92861 oiaohm Thu, 02 Aug 2012 03:05:46 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=13545#comment-92861 Chris Weig to the point I have had to install FTP server on Windows machines so scanning on some network printers would work too.

Its not 100 percent strange. A lot of people require a tech of some form to get a PC working.

]]> By: Chris Weig http://mrpogson.com/2012/08/01/gartner-gets-that-the-technology-platform-of-the-future-is-diffuse/#comment-92849 Chris Weig Wed, 01 Aug 2012 18:46:25 +0000 http://mrpogson.com/?p=13545#comment-92849 Your “little woman” has you as her personal system administrator. Weren’t you all excited about how you made the scanner/fax/whatever work with GNU/Linux by enabling its FTP functionality? See the problem? I guess not.

The consumerization of IT is a result of the availability of excellent devices, interfaces and applications with minimal learning curves.

No, that’s definitely not a description of the cr*p which is cooked up in FLOSS land on a regular basis.

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