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"Letting Employees Choose Their Own Technology Is Beneficial, Says CIO Ben Fried" -> This! This means that people are more productive when they have the hardwa
by lmedinas 12y ago
"Letting Employees Choose Their Own Technology Is Beneficial, Says CIO Ben Fried" -> This!
This means that people are more productive when they have the hardware and software they are used to.
- yitchelle 12y agoBut this would mean that the majority of folks in the company are like minded. Imagine, if I choose to use a Mac (because I am hipster), and my colleague on my right choose to use a ChromeBook (because he is a cutting edge geek) , and my colleague on my left choose to use a WinXP (because he doesn't want to change.) Interoperability would surely take a hit, and imagine the IT support required. /sorry for the sarcastic stereotyping...
- lmedinas 12y agoPeople are responsible for the actions they take :) If they want to use OpenBSD and play 3D Games it got to be difficult but if they manage to do it and be productive with it, it's ok. Also you are going to get Linux if you are doing i.e iOS development. See the point ?
- raverbashing 12y agoWhat interoperability? It's all in the web today
- ghaff 12y agoWhile there is some truth to that, there are still lots of software and data exchange dependencies within the average large corporation.
- raverbashing 12y ago" still lots of software and data exchange dependencies within the average large corporation" That's what Google threw into the trash and solved their problem.
- lrem 12y agoI use a Macbook, the guy on my left a Thinkpad and the guy on my right a Chromebook. No issues noticed. IT supports it well.
- aragot 12y agoI've seen a company without MS Office. There goes shared network drives too. Everyone had the OS of their choice, the best tool for their work, and we never exchanged files.
- melling 12y agoNo, I can't imagine the problems. I've had Mac, Linux, and Windows machines on my home network at same time. Could you elaborate on the problems?
- Brian-Puccio 12y agoSo your department needs a document management system that will make sure you are in compliance with all of the regulatory requirements that affect your industry as well as interface accordingly with vendors and other departments in your organization. The software has plugins with Word 2013 on Windows, Acrobat 11 on Windows and Outlook 2013 on Windows, but now people are allowed to pick whatever platform they want. What do you tell the Mac user? What do you tell the Linux user? Boot a VM whenever you want to work on a document? What do you tell the iPad user? In many large organizations, simple file systems won't work because they don't scale and you can't tell a legal department "oh, you need to share/version/distribute documents? just use this program called git, it's easy, let me show you and once you've got the hang of it, you call the appellate judge and tell him that he just needs to do a git pull to get your brief". When every software package that's deployed in millions of installations around the world that's only available in the Windows/Office/IE environment is completely cross-platform, then yes, you'll have completely interoperability between Windows, Mac and Linux machines, as well as iOS and Android devices. Until, the "I've had Mac, Linux and Windows machines on a home network" line has no bearing whatsoever on intolerability of software packages an enterprise environment that needs to interface to hundreds of external organizations daily.
- melling 12y agoI guess if you painted yourself into a corner, you're screwed. I've been working for quite some time, at small and large companies, and I've never had to use a document management system. Well, we know at least 2 Fortune 500 companies that haven't had a problem: Google and Apple.
- wmf 12y agoUse whatever you want has the obvious caveat that you have to get work done and you have to interop with other people.
- lallysingh 12y agoHuh, odd coincidence that Google has a web-based platform for docs, mail, file sharing, etc...