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Thinkers such as Nicholas Carr of MIT and execs such as Jonathan Schwartz of Sun believe that the computing industry is about to undergo a techtonic shift away from localized servers and toward computing-as-a-utility, or toward the less-extreme model of software-as-service.
A recent McKinsey article, "Two new tools that CIOs want" (May 2006) (proprietary), noted:
The software-as-a-service model can cut the total cost of deploying some classes of enterprise applications by 30 to 40 percent as compared with the total cost of purchasing and maintaining them in house. Of the senior IT executives we talked with, 38 percent said that they plan to use the software-as-a-service approach during the next 12 months. Question: What would net neutrality regulation do to this possibility? Would it not matter? Or would it undermine the QoS that utility computing or SAS models require?
posted by James DeLong @ 8:59 AM | Internet: P2P, Search Engines...
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