Parallels Between Electricity and Application Service Providers

Nicholas Carr wrote a very interesting article on MIT Sloan Management Review titled The End of Corporate Computing.

I remember in graduate school reading a paper from Gartner Group.  It was about outsourcing.   According to them a large number of the overall IT workforce in the United States would be outsourced to India, China, etc…  At the time I remember being floored but these assumptions and thinking that I’d just spent 6 years of my life going to school for a career that would disappear.

The assumptions in this article mean a lot of the same things to the IT workforce overall.  In my opinion at least.  Although I find it does not hit me as hard for some reason.  Maybe it is just me getting older.  Not sure.  Very interesting read though.