>>>Sure looks that way from where I sit too. There is no clamoring for replacing thousands of Windows (usually XP ) boxes with tablets with no keyboards or iphones. Those definitely have their place but there are awful lot of boxes out there that need to run SQL Server and Oracle apps in Java and .NET and the idea that somehow all those folks are going wake up one morning and say "Hey, I know, let switch all this stuff to mySql, noSql, Postgres and do our work on iPads because then we'll be cool" ...
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>Yes, but you invented that proposition. The way it happened with the iphone was that middle and senior managers called the CIO/CFO and said they wanted their corporate email on the iPhone. Initially there was the traditional pushback, but before long there were iphones with corporate email. Then the middle managers said they wanted to be able to edit their documents while stuck in traffic. Usual pushback etc etc, but soon it was possible to edit documents on the train. Next the salespeople speak up. There is no clamor and people are not waking up one day wanting to move to MySQL or wanting to be cool, it's a groundswell that is already well underway in many industries. Meantime there is a future for the PC, but people accustomed to one-solution bids for business can expect to be whipped by competitors who also think outside the grandpa box.

Yes in the that case I agree completely. It is new capability, not replacement of the old. I am all for it and I definitely think all development design now must consider solutions that scales to mobile access where appropriate.

I love new stuff and expanding the ways we connect with our stuff. I just don't think the IT world as it is now is in danger of disappearing. it will just expand. Admittedly, some of the most interesting and exciting opportunities will be in the new technologies and the languages and platforms that best support them.