The future of Corporate Computing or Corporate IT Services will depend on a number of factors such as technological advances, investments by governments and legal environment.
Carr (2005) predicted end of cor-porate computing. He cited three technological developments for the end of corporate computing. These are virtualization, grid computing and Web services. He also quoted that resulting future industry will likely have three major components. (i) Core will be the IT utilities that will maintain core computing resources in central plants and distribute them to corporate's end users. (ii) Serving the utilities will be a diverse array of component suppliers, i.e., computers and peripheral manufacturers, storage units, networking gear, operating and utility software, and applications (iii) Large network operators will maintain the ultrahigh-capacity data-communication lines needed for the future system to work.
Further, he said "Information technology shift from an in-house capital asset to a centralized utility service will overturn strategic and operating assumptions, alter industrial economics, upset markets and pose daunting challenges to every user and vendor". In his recent interview to computer world (May 09, 2005) he mentioned that IT has gone the way of electric generator. Similar sentiments were echoed by Sun's Schwartz who said, "that five years from now most businesses will be buying computing, not computers". Another predictor said, "why not buy services such as Pay roll, CRM etc., instead of buying computing". The others may suggest buy comforts and only profits but it is unlikely to happen. |
