[pchelpers] News:World only needs seven computers

OS and Servers News
08 December 2006

By Chris Mellor, Techworld

IBM founder Thomas J. Watson couldn't add up: it was seven computers the
world would need, not five. That's the contrarian view of Sun chief
technology officer Greg Papadopoulos. He thinks there will just seven
hyperscale, pan-global broadband computing services giants. 

They will deliver computing as a service on a likely wholesale basis
which smaller businesses will sub-divide, parcel up and retail to their
customers. The seven hyperscale providers will be Google, Microsoft
Live, Yahoo!, Amazon, eBay, Salesforce.com and the Great Computer of
China - which could be laid out linearly and be visible from space!

He thinks the computing business tomorrow will look like the energy
business today: a few global behemoths; fifty to a hundred regional and
national concerns and then wildcatters and specialists.

More here:
http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm?newsID=7529&pagtype=all
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