Blurred lines, as consumer tech swallows delivery of BIG IT A decade of “consumerisation” of IT has, according to Gartner, succeeded in shifting the balance of power within organisations — across departments and from hierarchies to individuals. For IT companies traditionally dominating the B2C market, the opportunities to target the enterprise space looms large. Already consumer tech …
“The large enterprise software groups, such as Microsoft, Oracle and VMware, traditionally don’t have those user experience skills in-house. They don’t understand user experience and design in the same way as the consumer tech vendors.”
Oh, they have them, designers to anthropologists. They don't listen to them. They (management*) have a "vision" and things are pounded into the wrong hole and unleashed upon this benighted universe. Unfortunately, They Are Not Steve Jobs (and even he blew some calls).
*aside: My Freudian slip would have been showing. Manglement was what I typed at first.
The problem is 'qualified professionals' who are adamant that CLI is the only way to configure a switch, powershell is the only way to send instructions to Windows, SQL Plus is the only way to control Oracle etc etc. Snobbishness, justification of certification, paranoia, lockout of other people in other teams etc
They command line tools were purpose-built for or already existed but extremely suited to the task. It's not snobbishness or lockout. And when all else fails on a server, a shell or a text log file are the last things to stop working.
Also, be careful what you wish for...
http://m.theregister.co.uk/2015/06/23/spiceworks_in_security_fail_linkedin_facebook/
"The problem is 'qualified professionals' who are adamant that CLI is the only way to configure a switch, powershell is the only way to send instructions to Windows, SQL Plus is the only way to control Oracle etc etc. " -- RonWheeler
Of course you can do all those things with a GUI; automating such an approach across multiple instances is a bit of a trial though :-)
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