IBM, Sun and Cisco in a word: comm-puting

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Thanks to Om Malik for netting out the dramatic changes in the IT industry this week.  He sees Sun ceding their “The Network is the Computer” vision to Cisco, who can actually make it happen.  He coined the term “comm-puter” for this disruptive change in high-end computing. 

Turns out making the network the computer is easier for network companies than computer companies.

IBM and Sun will take a run at it too, it seems.  What an amazing Dance of the Elephants we will see over the next few years!  Many companies must now decide between the dance floor and wall flower.

GigaOm’s view is that Dell and those lower on the mega-data center food chain won’t be as dramatically affected.  Does HP need another dance partner? 

While the Commputer Dance affects storage, it seems less direct.  Storage remains a core foundational element.  It’s kind of at the end of the network – the place all the stuff resides. 

Marc Farley’s collection of the latest news on the Cisco deal is handy as well.

2009-03-19T05:34:46+00:00

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