Quote: "more and more we’re seeing bottom-up adoption of technology displacing top-down deployments" To employ a passive-aggressive Wikipedia edit: [citation n

Quote: "more and more we’re seeing bottom-up adoption of technology displacing top-down deployments" To employ a passive-aggressive Wikipedia edit: [citation needed]. I actually do agree that Enterprise has some really interesting problems, and they are actually pretty good at coming up with solutions that make you go "Huh, that's actually pretty cool." It's just that they're so customized, buried so deeply in the corporate system, you'd never know they were there. Some of the message queue systems I've read about are quite neat. But when I worked for an Oracle vendor, and at other IT companies around me, it seemed that technology adoption was entirely driven by top-down deployments from old boys clubs and salesmen that promised everything. Remember that old Dilbert strip where the salesman comes in and tells Dilbert he promised feature X, and Dilbert replies it doesn't have feature X? Happened to me too. If there really is a sea change where clever engineering guys can dictate their software deployments, and not middle-management/sales who complain they just spent $X million on Y, so you'd better use it, then the market does have the opportunity to open up in a cool way. I just want to see more evidence that the market is how he claims.