There’s a new bit of conventional wisdom regarding the future of computing, and it’s gathering momentum in some corners of the business world. Advocates of this particular piece of wisdom argue that the best way to reduce the cost and complexity of corporate computing for the data centers of the future is to adopt a single microprocessor design, Intel’s x86, and two computer operating systems, Microsoft’s Windows and the Linux open source program. A corollary to this idea is that corporations should farm out all of their computing tasks to cloud service providers.
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The Future Enterprise, Part 6: Why Conventional Wisdom Is Wrong
Posted by: Steve Hamm December 17, 2011 05:00 AMThere’s a new bit of conventional wisdom regarding the future of computing, and it’s gathering momentum in some corners of the business world. Advocates of this particular piece of wisdom argue that the best way to reduce the cost and complexity of corporate computing for the data centers of the future is to adopt a single microprocessor design, Intel’s x86, and two computer operating systems, Microsoft’s Windows and the Linux open source program. A corollary to this idea is that corporations should farm out all of their computing tasks to cloud service providers.