Nicholas Carr created quite a stir in 2003, when he wrote the article "Why IT Doesn't Matter Anymore" in the Harvard Business Review. And now, he has followed that up with another piece,"The end of corporate computing". In the first article, Carr argued that IT has become so common place that it ceases to have a strategic edge. That strategic edge comes from scarcity and not ubiquity. Now, going forward, Carr argues that corporate computing, as we know it is destined to wither away and will be replaced by utility services that corporates will subscribe to.
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