Comments on: It’s Good Enough, Reincarnated http://www.vladville.com/2008/03/its-good-enough-reincarnated.html Vlad Mazek on IT, Business and Technology Wed, 01 Feb 2012 22:49:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: dst patch http://www.vladville.com/2008/03/its-good-enough-reincarnated.html/comment-page-1#comment-30042 dst patch Mon, 10 Mar 2008 14:16:19 +0000 http://www.vladville.com/2008/03/its-good-enough-reincarnated.html#comment-30042 [...] Hardware Inventory by Jeff Gilbert - 2/18/2008 If you're running SMS 2003 SP2 or eamyitforum.comIt??s Good Enough, Reincarnated For the past decade IT shops and IT departments have had to fight the ???it??s good enough??? [...] [...] Hardware Inventory by Jeff Gilbert – 2/18/2008 If you’re running SMS 2003 SP2 or eamyitforum.comIt??s Good Enough, Reincarnated For the past decade IT shops and IT departments have had to fight the ???it??s good enough??? [...]

]]> By: Amy B http://www.vladville.com/2008/03/its-good-enough-reincarnated.html/comment-page-1#comment-29767 Amy B Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:44:44 +0000 http://www.vladville.com/2008/03/its-good-enough-reincarnated.html#comment-29767 It no rumor. But how are they going to sell it? Is the customer really going to undertand that an online service where they read their email and pay for it is different than an online service where they read their mail for free? Not without a lot of marketing and we know how good Microsoft is at marketing their products. It no rumor. But how are they going to sell it? Is the customer really going to undertand that an online service where they read their email and pay for it is different than an online service where they read their mail for free? Not without a lot of marketing and we know how good Microsoft is at marketing their products.

]]> By: Chris Knight http://www.vladville.com/2008/03/its-good-enough-reincarnated.html/comment-page-1#comment-29766 Chris Knight Mon, 03 Mar 2008 13:01:10 +0000 http://www.vladville.com/2008/03/its-good-enough-reincarnated.html#comment-29766 You said: > So here, in 2008, we have a comeback > of “it’s good enough” in that people > are again comfortable not taking > their IT as a strategic asset and > instead focus on their core business > and little else. Yeah, that's what the big boys have been talking about with outsourcing and more recently the MSPs in the SMB space - "you give us a (mostly) fixed fee, we offer you a contracted service (that we may or may not be actually able to meet) so you can nearly work out per-PC annualised costs, and you can get on and focus on core business activity and leave all this IT stuff to us". Besides, "it's good enough" is back cause the technology's got more complex and the accountants in charge don't want to know the complexity (at least in this part of the organisation). And as your 98-08 synopsis clearly shows, there's clearly a price sensitivity. Blackberry, Gmail and Apple all do a pretty good job of obfuscating the complexity without the high costs generally associated with the complexity. Plus, the less technically-minded people have a good chance of being able to set it up themselves. Looking forward to your follow-up post. You said:

> So here, in 2008, we have a comeback
> of “it’s good enough” in that people
> are again comfortable not taking
> their IT as a strategic asset and
> instead focus on their core business
> and little else.

Yeah, that’s what the big boys have been talking about with outsourcing and more recently the MSPs in the SMB space – “you give us a (mostly) fixed fee, we offer you a contracted service (that we may or may not be actually able to meet) so you can nearly work out per-PC annualised costs, and you can get on and focus on core business activity and leave all this IT stuff to us”.

Besides, “it’s good enough” is back cause the technology’s got more complex and the accountants in charge don’t want to know the complexity (at least in this part of the organisation). And as your 98-08 synopsis clearly shows, there’s clearly a price sensitivity. Blackberry, Gmail and Apple all do a pretty good job of obfuscating the complexity without the high costs generally associated with the complexity. Plus, the less technically-minded people have a good chance of being able to set it up themselves.

Looking forward to your follow-up post.

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