Headlines in just about every city right now are about economic meltdown. While the economy still deserves top billing, the backstory to those headlines is about IT. The proposed solution to the meltdown is more standardization and regulation, forcing companies, organizations, and government to evolve their IT in a stressful situation. What would Darwin do? How did land-living animals evolve from fish? The transformation required in many companies is no less than the transformation from the fins of fish to the arms and legs of human ancestors.