It only have 11 years but Forrester Research has boldly enter the 21st century !
As Philip Elmer - Dewitt reports , Forrester — once a citadel of corporate IT groupthink — has on the face of it stop drinking out of the water supply fountain run by the lead pipe and distinguish that , gosh , maybe it ’s okay to have Macs in the enterprisebecause , as it turns out , Mac users are more productive .
for certain , we ’ve only been telling them that for , like , whatever 2011 minus 1984 is , but whatever . The Macalope presumes they did n’t get it for a longsighted sentence because they were still working on that Y2 K trouble .
This late revelation by the brain reliance at Forrester still reads like a embodied IT jargon bingo card .
“ It ’s time to revoke prohibition and take decisive action , ” write David Johnson in a new report made useable to Fortune ( and uncommitted for sales agreement here ) . “ Mac users are your HEROes and you should enable them not block them . ”
“ HERO , ” it turns out , is a Forrester acronym for extremely Empowered and Resourceful Operatives—“the 17 % of selective information workers who employ new technologies and find innovative way of life to be more productive and serve client more effectively . ”
Go soma ! ( You hump what , Forrester ? They ’re also well look . )
According to Forrester :
Many of today ’s embodied personal computer are saddled with direction , patronage , and security measures agent that can bog down a PC .
You do n’t say ? Wow , wonder who prescribed all that overhead ? Wonder what sinful alliance of IT managing director , stinky hardware and software trafficker , and white - newspaper - spewing research firms spent years trying to make the user experience so execrable that these submarine sandwich had to take matters into their own hands ?
The job , Johnson said in an consultation today , is that go-ahead IT responsibilities have shifted from assisting user to serving as the gatekeeper that governs and operate what tools employees form with and what they do with those prick .
Boy , you ’d reckon a gang of IT nerds would better rememberStar Warsquotes about what happens when you test to tighten your finger .
