Posted by Martyn R Jones on December 09, 1999 at 04:12:45:

In Reply to: Will the real IT please step forward? posted by Robert Benjamin on December 08, 1999 at 14:15:01:

Hello Robert

My self opinionated call on this would be to classify IT as Information (Systems) Technology which would include:

- Computers [processors; main memory; secondary memory - disks and stuff; peripherals - printers, storage devices, scanners etc.; terminals and little computers (aka PCs or Workstations)], network routers, modems, cables, transmitters and receivers etc. etc. etc.
- Programs - Operating Systems, Data Base Management Systems, Development Environments, Commercial Viruses, Programming Languages, Applications [from the smallest and easiest to use app. to the largest non-standard standard ERP package] etc. etc. etc.

Basically IT is hardware and software.

If we were to make a comparison between IT and the brain we would have to realize that the we have in IT, at best, an intellectually challenged version of Pooh Bear. I think IT in the KM context means enablement and delivery - but I might be really, really wrong and just be that unfortunate one who is surrounded by dumb implementations of smart technology.

Cheers

Martyn

Martyn R Jones

• km - oh my god they've patented and trademarked Kenny!

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