Grid Computing: The Popular Threat

It's the end of corporate computing as we know it.

So says Nicholas Carr, the Harvard Business Review scribe who two years ago asserted that information technology doesn't matter. That point of view, which suggested there's no competitive advantage gained from IT investment, ignited a firestorm, particularly among IT vendors.
Last week, Mr. Carr added to the IT-doesn't-matter discussion by postulating that businesses will soon discover that it makes no sense to own and manage computing capability. In a nine-page discussion document called "The End of Corporate Computing," Mr. Carr contends that business is at a stage where technology as a built and owned corporate function will move to a service delivered by a utility provider.