Re:Just what we don't need... (Score 1)

Are all the people who post to Slashdot IT insiders? Or perhaps they just work at some wonderful company where the IT dept is competent, adequately staffed, and responsive to users' needs? That's great, but outside of that merry utopia there is a wide swath of the corporate world where the IT dept is a hide-bound, under-staffed, and out-sourced resource with little regard for end-user productivity or implementing clever ideas. I am an engineer in a large, unnamed, aerospace company (a member of the DJIA) where many of the critical applications in daily use came about through end-user tinkering without any cooperation whatsoever from the IT dept. Many of these are compact, simple, but devastatingly useful utilities that are far more robust than the general-purpose monstrosities that IT depts seem to love. I have no idea how worthwhile or innovative QEDWiki will turn out to be. My point is just that there is a class of users out there who are capable of creating useful, robust applications, and anything that puts another tool in their arsenal seems like a good thing to me. Will they be writing the company ERP software with it? Of course not. But a lot of business gets done with simple little widgets for which this thing seems well suited.