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To: Craig A who wrote (3843)	5/20/1999 10:12:00 PM
From: Brian Malloy	of 6846

Speaking of selling bandwidth, what is old will become new. There will be many new commodities. Nice article on server farms and their commoditization (if their is such a word). As a QWESTIE I don't care who runs the server farm I just know it means more business for QWEST and the other fiber jocks. Internet Fuels Revival of Centralized 'Big Iron' Computing Internet companies like America Online, to be sure, will have their own server farms. But others increasingly view computing as a utility, a service to be purchased like electricity. Indeed, technology historians note that when factories began using electricity in the late 19th century, each had its own power plant. Later, regional utilities were created and sold electric service to the factories. At Goodyear, Hargreaves seemed to apply the same logic to his company's decision to have its Web site for dealers managed by IBM at its server farm in Schaumburg. "We're in the tire business," he explained. "Why run the digital power plant ourselves?" nytimes.com

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