It's all about IT?

I'm not so old but, in the past there was only few of us: web/script programmers whose by the way must remember Html beginning, browse war between Netscape and Microsoft, DHTML, using Javascript and XML also (does isn't call AJAX now? ;-), PHP neurotics and Apatcher's ;-)
A world of lot of companies thinking about their business on the web, lot of portals, providers, but also a world of Trojan, broadcast mail viruses, of Windows 95 and its bugs...

Lot of this has been changed. Others have not.

Anyway, our business is going through a massive process to create patterns and standards which has good and bad things. Market vicious of PMI, CMM, RUP and other standards has been used very well in big companies such as IBM, TATA and others, but small/medium and companies which have a different business model, are carried into this trend in a wrong way by their entrepreneurs, which makes it bureaucratic, stalled and out of its reality.

We're still in a learn path of processes, and the good sense is on highest way for your T.I business. Massive models such as fordism have been used since the second global war and are considered mature now, but had passed by a lot of changes and adaptations. Models as ISO by example, becomes reliable companies and their large-scale products. There's now massive software production in large-scale been offered all the time. As in the past, market need control and standards for massive production, and UML, CMM, RUP models and others become true.

In the same way in manufacture model, small companies cannot compete against big companies in the same way. They need to be creative, dynamic and flexible - need to make it business fast, or it will no longer exists. Looking into this side, small an big companies have the same business in different ways. Each of them has their own responsability to check it out. My fast-overview:



What 'd changed:
Network changed from Dial up and point to point to High Speed Data Networks and peer-to-peer
Users has changed from telephony to instant messengers/talks
Email is not a feature, but a requirement
Searching changes the matters from real things to content

What is changing in Network
Television - HDTV, DVB, DVB-H
Mobility - UMTS/WCDMA
Last mile - WiMax/WiFi/Bluetooth

What is changing in Services
Relationship networks (for employments, jobs and social)
Mobility - Push, mobile banking, security, payments
Presence - connect everywhere (SIP/Jabber/etc)


Of course there is a lot of brand new things that are being developed or just wonder. The thing that still matters is not what, but how bring it all to our business.