Priests of the Past: IT Preservationists

I was reading an interesting two article series at CIO– The Future of ERP, by Thomas Wailgum, which catalyzed many thoughts of the past, present, and future.

The article contains one of the best quotes I’ve seen from CIO in years, which prompted this post:

“There are many things happening here that are good for users, good for the IT profession, good for business. It’s just good, good, good,” Pierce says. “You know, what’s slowing this adoption are all the priests of the past—all the preservationists. All the interests that are built up around the edifice that is enterprise software….

–Todd Pierce, CIO of Genentech

In the context of the article, Pierce is apparently.....