Comments on: Case Study: Google Services Too Good, Making IT Departments Shrink http://bobcaswell.com/2006/12/20/case-study-google-services-too-good-making-it-departments-shrink/ Media consumer, tech enthusiast, and blogger Tue, 06 Dec 2011 20:39:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Tom Caswell http://bobcaswell.com/2006/12/20/case-study-google-services-too-good-making-it-departments-shrink/comment-page-1/#comment-488 Tom Caswell Wed, 20 Dec 2006 17:03:08 +0000 http://www.techconsumer.com/2006/12/20/case-study-google-services-too-good-making-it-departments-shrink/#comment-488 My school is looking into doing the same thing, and they should because our current email system is worthless. The point of technology is not to create jobs. If we got hung up about jobs every time there was some form of progress that eliminated jobs we'd still be using the telegraph instead of the cell phone and the ice box instead of the refrigerator. If your IT job is not needed anymore then it's time to move on. And hopefully you know more than just Microsoft Exchange Server. My school is looking into doing the same thing, and they should because our current email system is worthless.

The point of technology is not to create jobs. If we got hung up about jobs every time there was some form of progress that eliminated jobs we’d still be using the telegraph instead of the cell phone and the ice box instead of the refrigerator. If your IT job is not needed anymore then it’s time to move on. And hopefully you know more than just Microsoft Exchange Server.

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