For Wal-Mart, too, IT is a commodity  —  “I never viewed computers as anything more than necessary overhead,” Sam Walton once said.  Nevertheless, after I wrote “IT Doesn’t Matter” back in 2003, critics would routinely present Wal-Mart as the killer counter example to my argument …

Source:   Rough Type: Nicholas Carr’s Blog

Author:   Nick

Link:   http://www.roughtype.com/archives/2007/10…