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RE: Seen the STC Survey on May 22? (Was: TC definition)
Subject:RE: Seen the STC Survey on May 22? (Was: TC definition) From:Fred Ridder <docudoc -at- hotmail -dot- com> To:Michael West <westm -at- conwag -dot- com>, <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Wed, 28 May 2008 13:50:14 -0400
Responding to Gene Kim-Eng, Michael West wrote:
> Gene Kim-Eng wrote:
> > It would never occur to me to think of
> > desktop software as "within the IT industry."
>
> How bizarre this seems to me! It would never occur to me to think of
> software as anything *but* information technology. If computer software
> isn't information technology, then what is?
Computer gaming software, which is a *very* big business, seems to be
a very long way from information technology in my book. I suppose you
could lump all of computer software under some umbrella like "computer
sciences". But most definitions of information technology that I've seen
have focused on computers and networks that support enterprise and
business processes or the storage, cataloging, and retrieval of large
amounts of information.
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