# IT must become a service provider, or die - Host: [redmonk.com](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/hosts/redmonk.com/) - Saved: October 25, 2014 (2014-10-25T12:51:50Z) - Record: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3b4bb1c14cd1/ - JSON: https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/3b4bb1c14cd1.json ## From the page (probably an excerpt, not Jamie's words) The traditional role of IT departments is shifting, metamorphosing, even vanishing in some cases. It used to be that IT was the "department of no". But a couple of decades ago, open source became a... ## Facts - Kind: [Page](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/kinds/page/) ## Same host - [Adding work to social, not social to work: IRC, ChatOps, and Hubot - Donnie Berkholz's Story of Data](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/5aa2a325f93b/) (redmonk.com, January 14, 2013) - [GitHub's vanishing acceleration](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/57866bbcf0cf/) (redmonk.com, October 25, 2014) - [Salesforce and the New Bucket of Bits. Phoenix, Ashes. – James Governor's Monkchips](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/bb995e3d6a7e/) (redmonk.com, October 25, 2014) - [Cloud outages, transparency, and trust](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/0fae7dd441b4/) (redmonk.com, January 12, 2015) - [The breakout of Ansible, and the state of config-management communities – Donnie Berkholz's Story of Data](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/812b973fea4d/) (redmonk.com, April 6, 2015) ## Saved the same week - [Rise of the Hackers](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/f518c57daa46/) (pbs.org, October 24, 2014) - [Quantum cryptography - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/9690a5d306c8/) (en.wikipedia.org, October 24, 2014) - [Assange: Google Is Not What It Seems](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/1048bacc0bef/) (newsweek.com, October 24, 2014) - [GitHub's vanishing acceleration](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/57866bbcf0cf/) (redmonk.com, October 25, 2014) - [Salesforce and the New Bucket of Bits. Phoenix, Ashes. – James Governor's Monkchips](https://links.thingelstad.xyz/links/bb995e3d6a7e/) (redmonk.com, October 25, 2014) ## Elsewhere - Wayback Machine: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2014/09/29/it-must-become-a-service-provider-or-die/