The End Of The PC Era?
The PC era is coming to an end according to Greg Papadopoulos, CTO of Sun. He claims only Amazon, Yahoo!, Google and so on would survive as a computer operator and revives infamous Thomas J. Watson misquote.
What can we think of his assertion, especially when you read this mostly from your PC?
- A lot of processes whether computer based or human based are sourced somewhere else from the base company. But a company still needs to create value and cannot do it simply by aggregating different providers. It needs to add something, somewhere, although this can be done from an outsourced data-centers, companies would still need some infrastructure.
- Most companies have already outsourced most of their IT, stored in remote data-center, so this is no news.
- Actually, the number of CPU sold is increasing so stating there will be only 5 computers in the world seems contradictory with the facts.
This annoucements look a big PR event. What is behind is commoditization of those hardware and the emerging of a whole new class of applications to manage and use those CPU. Peer to Peer seems the most relevant abstraction for this next revolution.
December 11th, 2006 at 8:32 am
Sun is anouncing the end of PC era for 15 years now !
December 11th, 2006 at 8:57 am
Now that you say it, this is just so true… In a way they have been right since the PC is now better than initial Sun workstation (although Solaris is still superior to Linux). But now???