Eric, <What I specifically mean is that instead of needing one large server with many cpu's, in the future there will be many small servers, each with perhaps only one CPU, organised together over a network.>
Kind of on a tangent here, but I was talking with one of my coworkers who told me that the future will be peer-to-peer networking, a la Napster but in a more general sense. Because of this, he argues, the need for general-purpose servers will decrease, and people's own desktop machines become the "servers" in a P2P world.
Of course, I disagreed, saying there will always be a need for large centralized servers or server clusters, especially in the back-end (where Sun is and where Itanium wants to be). But I wonder whether you would agree with my coworker regarding the peer-to-peer concept.
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