“Utility computing and SaaS mean IT will wither away,” Bob Lewis interprets Nicholas Carr’s newest stab at prophesy. Carr, you’ll recall, authored the controversial, yet perhaps not-entirely-understood, IT doesn’t matter. (That link gets you only the first page of his Harvard Business Review article; want more and they’ll charge you for it.) More recently Mr. Carr wrote The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google, wherein he laid out the forecast to which Lewis refers. “I don’t think much of the prediction,” Lewis writes in Experts’ opinion of Carr’s prediction (that means you). “On the other hand, it’s been a long time since I’ve personally written code, integrated applications or administered servers. That means I’m working from theory and memory, not current practice.” With that, Lewis turns to you, readers, the very folks “up to your elbows in the challenges associated with integrating SaaS solutions into your legacy environments.” What do you think – is Carr’s future realistic, based on a ground-level view and not just the hazy perspective you get at 100,000 feet? Talkback via the comments function below or at the above link to Lewis’ story. Technology Industry