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This is "Tablets for the Enterprise"...
Not to state the obvious, but you are reading "Tablets in the Enterprise". Suggesting that we stop talking about tablets might be akin to complaining that Vogue spends too much time talking about high fashion.

I do indeed suggest that you focus on content and the business problem being solved by a tablet; however it's also our job in IT to investigate new tools and I've tried to offer low risk/low cost ways to do so. I don't recall suggesting tablets "rule" or are the solution to every problem.

A Tablets blog is naturally going to be biased towards tablets, but I do worry some in IT might miss the boat by not at least working with a few of these devices to check the current market, get the creative juices flowing, and if nothing else, be able to adopt a rational and fact-based "we're going to wait and see" attitude.

On a larger and perhaps philosophical note, one of the great risks of corporate IT is irrelevance as the user community who grew up with technology wonders why IT is always saying "no," especially when they don't have first-hand experience of the technology under discussion.
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Posted by pgray@...
1st Dec 2011