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Microsoft predicts rise of the datacentre | |
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| Time: 00:17 EST/05:17 GMT | News Source: Financial Times | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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A handful of US companies is set to dominate the emerging market for “cloud computing”, which will assume a central role in the information technology world, according to Steve Ballmer, chief executive of Microsoft. His prediction – in an interview with the Financial Times – points to a future in which the distinctions between software, hardware and internet companies fall away and a small number of big technology companies, each running a collection of vast datacentres, controls the IT landscape. | ||
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| Is this a good thing? |
| #2 By 1896 (68.153.171.248) at 2/26/2008 7:36:55 AM |
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Most probably not but a good percentage of people will get used to it and accept the idea.
In a way is like the music market: there are people who like the concept of a monthly subsciption fee to access all the music they want to play, others, like me, prefer to own it. |
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