IT still vital, Microsoft stresses
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
IT is still critical for a competitive advantage, stressed a Microsoft official Monday morning at the TechEd 2003 conference here, while also touting Web services and providing product road maps. As part of these road maps, Microsoft revealed a delay in delivery of the Yukon database planned for 2004.
Paul Flessner, Microsoft's senior vice president for the Windows Server division, was quick to reject recently published reports contending that IT no longer offers a competitive advantage because everyone has it.
"Everyday, our job together is to propel IT forward," Flessner said. "If you stagnate, you die in this environment, and that's part of the value of IT."
Conceding that Microsoft has been part of a "crisis in complexity" in IT, Flessner offered up Web services and Microsoft's plethora of products such as Windows Server 2003 as a next wave of computing.