Oracle Release and IT shops

I was looking over my feed update this morning when I came across this item from the Loosely Coupled blog. It seems that Oracle has put Do it yourself portal capabilities in their latest release, and this has some of the control freak types upset:

The launch this week of DIY portal capabilities for Oracle's application server platform has not been welcomed in all quarters. According to Forrester analyst Nate Root, quoted in Internet Week, "Portal development isn't a business-user function. IT doesn't want it to be a business-user function ... The way to break the development bottleneck is to give IT better tools, not try to circumvent IT."

In my experience, the typical IT group wouldn't know a business function if it walked up and bit it on the nose. There was an encouraging thing in this for me; it showed me that I'm not the only business user who sees the words value and IT Group put together in a sentence and starts snorting whatever beverage he has at hand...