Carr says that the article he was writing was somewhat offensive and that went in contradiction of the information technology and business and he says that the reaction went more than what he expected. .
As per Nicholas G. Carr's article, "IT Doesn't Matter"," published in the Harvard Business Review (HBR) in May 2003, the evolution of information technology in commerce, is slightly related to that of earlier technologies like railway transport system and electric power generation. For a short period of time, as they are being made into the infrastructure of business, the infrastructural technologies offer scope for the companies whose motive is to give strong competition to other companies by grabbing the benefits. But as per their availability increases and their costs get dropped - as they become omnipresent - they become vendible inputs. At the peak stage, they become ambiguous and they doesn't matter in the long run.
2. Detailed view on Carr's article.
2.1 Vanishing Edge.
Carr says that, in IT industry when resources turn into essential commodities for competition but frivolous to strategy, the risks they create become more important than the advantages they provide. .
2.2 IT Commoditization.
In business terms, commoditization is well-defined as the method by which goods that has economic value and is distinguishable in terms of characteristics that end up becoming normal commodities in the eyes of the market or clients. It is the responsibility of a market from distinguished to indistinguishable rate competition and from noncompetitive to perfect competition. .
Carr describes IT as a transport mechanism which transmits digital information such as trains transport goods and power grids carry electric power. In the history, IT business created a trend by improving interrelationship and interoperability, from mainframe to minicomputer-based local area networks to broader Ethernet networks.