Yesterday’s post about Bob Lewis’ translation of Nicholas Carr’s most recent prediction drew several reader comments. Most offer insightful agreements with Lewis assertion that people in the trenches, those “up to elbows in the challenges associated with integrating SaaS solutions into legacy environments,” have a clearer picture than the hazy perspective one gets at the 100,000 feet vista. In case you missed it: Lewis boils Carr’s recent work, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google, into terms starkly relevant for enterprise IT. “Utility computing and SaaS mean IT will wither away.” Then again, Lewis disagrees with the prediction. As I mentioned so do some readers. One even points out that, “really big firms often do NOT ‘outsource’ their electrician functions, because for them economy of scale works in the other direction. If the simplest of simple to use utilities can still support an ‘in house’ support function in some cases, the idea that something orders of magnitude more complex won’t sounds a bit far fetched, to say the least.” What do you think? Join the discussion via the link above, or talkback with the comments function below. Technology Industry