Comments on: The End of Corporate Computing – Rubbish! http://steves.seasidelife.com/2005/05/10/the-end-of-corporate-computing-rubbish/ I'm Steve Richards a strategist and all round tech enthusiast working on enterprise desktop, application delivery and collaboration solutions. I work from home by the coast in the North West of England. All the views expressed in this blog are my own. Mon, 21 Dec 2009 10:58:27 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://steves.seasidelife.com/2005/05/10/the-end-of-corporate-computing-rubbish/comment-page-1/#comment-156 Anonymous Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:00:00 +0000 http://steves.seasidelife.com/2005/05/10/the-end-of-corporate-computing-rubbish/#comment-156 I agree that Nick Carr has, as with his earlier article <em>IT Doesn't Matter</em>, overstated his case here too. Business software often automates complex and firm-specific business processes, and does not easily lend itself to centralization with a utility supplier. It is difficult to imagine a car factory carrying out its manufacturing planning or control thru a subscribed utility, or an investment bank performing securities analysis on a vendor's computer sitting hundreds of miles away. The author's vision may, however be seen as providing a general direction in which computing will evolve. Utility computing may gain traction over the next few years for applications that are not highly firm-specific, where business-criticality and security requirements are low, and where speed of response is not highly material. I agree that Nick Carr has, as with his earlier article IT Doesn’t Matter, overstated his case here too. Business software often automates complex and firm-specific business processes, and does not easily lend itself to centralization with a utility supplier. It is difficult to imagine a car factory carrying out its manufacturing planning or control thru a subscribed utility, or an investment bank performing securities analysis on a vendor’s computer sitting hundreds of miles away.

The author’s vision may, however be seen as providing a general direction in which computing will evolve. Utility computing may gain traction over the next few years for applications that are not highly firm-specific, where business-criticality and security requirements are low, and where speed of response is not highly material.

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