There can be only one....
Chris Caposella gave an interesting talk earlier this week? in which he mentioned his views that "In five years, 50 percent of our Exchange mailboxes will be Exchange Online,". this got me thinking about an interesting presentation i once saw in which the presenter opened with a mention of a famous quote from Thomas Watson - of IBM fame - where he was quoted as saying that there is only room in the world for 5 computers (it was actually one of his sales directors saying that he could only ever see IBM selling at most 12 computers when they started their switch from punch machines to PC's - but thats besides the point :) ) anyway, this quote was met with the usual sniggers to which the presenter replied, "I think he was out by 4!. There could eventually be one cloud situated supercomputer as the large networks and systems become more and more integrated."
Interesting viewpoint, and i think its gaining speed. Highlander was right!!
