Gartner Predicts Consumerization of IT is Imminent. at Robert Pogson

“consumerization is now expected to reach the Plateau of Productivity in two to five years, down from five to 10 years in 2011.”

That’s quite a change and since Android/Linux and iOS have lead the charge in consumerization, this is a cloud on M$’s horizon. Combine the willingness of business to admit other technologies than Wintel and the huge emerging markets in small cheap computers and progress in cloud-computing, it is a black cloud indeed. M$ and its “partners” may wish to catch the wave of consumerization but they are very late to the party and have no brand recognition in mobility which is at the heart of consumerization.

A further note on the hype-cycle of emerging technologies. */Linux is not shown anywhere. I guess that’s because it has emerged as underpinning many of the hyped technologies like virtual desktops and cloud-computing and consumerization. A couple of years ago, */Linux was shown as 2-5 years from maturity. That emergence is now.

see Gartner's 2012 Hype Cycle for Emerging Technologies Identifies "Tipping Point" Technologies That Will Unlock Long-Awaited Technology Scenarios.

My Mission

My observations and opinions about IT are based on 40 years of use in science and technology and lately, in education. I like IT that is fast, cost-effective and reliable. I do not care whether my solution is the same as yours. I like to think for myself.

My first use of GNU/Linux in 2001 was so remarkably better than what I had been using, I feel it is important work to share GNU/Linux with the world. I have been blessed by working in schools where students and school systems have benefited by good, modular software easily installed in most systems.

I have shown GNU/Linux to thousands of students and hundreds of teachers over the years and will continue in some way doing that until I die in spite of the opposition.