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It’s time for a few I-told-you-so’s (ITYS), some industry commentary, public policy ramblings, and just enough connection to IT leadership to justify the rest.

ITYS #1: In his Fatal Exception blog, InfoWorld’s Neil McAllister asks, “Is the SaaS experiment finally over?” (7/1/2010). Citing Gartner, which elsewhere continues to cheerlead Software as a Service, he points out that SaaS adoption continues to be both limited and disappointing.

No surprise here.

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We need to add a response.

The risk management profession lists four ways to deal with risk. There’s:

  • Prevention (which can mean reducing the odds of an occurrence as well as eliminating them) …
  • Mitigation, limiting the damage that occurs should the risk turn into reality …

  • Insurance, spreading the cost of any damage that occurs …
  • … and, depending on your Sarcasm Quotient (SQ), either hope or acceptance. Whichever you prefer, it means you prepare no response to the risk of an asteroid smashing into the earth in case Bruce Willis fails to stop it.

The fifth response … which isn’t new at all … is deny,

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