Is Now the Time to Dump Microsoft and Fire Your IT Manager?

Fast Company Now blog has published the dilemma of going to Web 2.0 or dumping both Microsoft and your IT Manager. The GMH believes that there is a third alternative that needs to be considered in the dialogue: services without price controls to end users.

This is what I submitted to the Fast Company blog:

The end of the game on Web 2.0 vs MS is related to net neutrality and true
electricity deregulation. The net and electricity services will shift from
either/or to multiple options as John Naisbitt envisioned in Megatrends. 100%
service availability is not possible. 3-nines (99.9%), 4-nines (99.99%) and so
on service availability will fill the multiple options customers will elect to
maximize the value added from the services. A third alternative might arrive
where those services are offered without price controls on a business as usual
wholesale, retail, customer value chain. Small and medium size businesses will
purchase the insurance they need to decide to purchase central or distributed
services.