Google would never outsource their operations to big blue, but for PWC that would probably be a good move.Įven at the micro scale you can see this in github repos where large companies will open source core modules but keep their competitive code proprietary. For most companies power and ping are commodities, but for Google it is a competitive advantage. The way I look at it, all innovation can be strategic depending upon your business and its priorities. Now here's where folks take a leap of faith and say that /all/ IT doesn't matter. His correct conclusion was that these bits of tech were not strategic but rather simply the cost of doing business and thusly were open to commoditization. It turned out that almost all of these companies built similar modules, since all of these companies on average hired smart managers that understood where inefficiencies could be eliminated via technology. His argument centered around these fortune 500 companies whom purchased big ERP systems and had custom development done for various parts of their businesses as a strategic investment (and a trade secret). I've read the original article a while back so forgive me if my memory is a bit off. Unfortunately, IT is treated like a commodity for most organizations, and commodities never get special attention. He assumed there was no more innovation to be had, that everything ever needed to be invented had been invented, and so we had reached the peak of functionality, like how you can't improve much upon the hammer and nail beyond perhaps the screw and electric power screwdriver. His arguments just assumed one thing incorrectly: they assumed that enterprise IT would never change in terms of the end user functionality it delivered. And most IT organizations to date still take them to heart. All of his arguments made perfect sense at the time. It's important for keeping up with the competition, but it will never put you ahead of the competition because it has been commoditized. He argued that while IT provided a competitive advantage in the past, it doesn't anymore. The whole meme started with Nick Carr's infamous Does IT Matter? editorial in the Harvard Business Review. The guy in charge of international training for this quality program said, "The fact is, IT is now a commodity." I'm the lead guy on my team for running our quality control. It was completely mind-boggling to me at the time. Those people just didn't understand, and they were in charge of (or ultimately responsible for) their universities' IT security efforts.
I got a few thank yous, but I got just as many replies from IT Security Officers and CIOs (including at big name universities) accusing me of hacking their computers and demanding that I stop immediately or face legal action. I didn't get replies from the majority of the universities I sent messages to, including the. I also included a list of the compromised hostnames at their university and the IRC server's information so their networking people could look for other compromised hosts connected to the IRC server if they wanted to. In my e-mails, I explained who I was and where I worked, that one of our computers had been compromised by hackers (yeah yeah terminology), and that in the course of investigating, I found that computers at their university had also been compromised by the same hackers. There was no way I could notify everyone, so I concentrated on e-mailing the. Sleep tight knowing your direct deposit information is in good hands.) "/who #channel" listed thousands of compromised clients, including hundreds with. One day, a grad student brought me his laptop and asked if I would take a look at it because "the Internet really slow." It turned out that his computer was part of a botnet controlled via IRC, and it was being used to attack hosts on the Intertubes.Īfter sniffing the IP address + port of the IRC server and the channel name and password the botnet was using, I joined the channel with a regular IRC client. I used to work at a large public university. I've already posted my "almost got arrested for using zsh" story, so here's another one:
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