To: Mark Fleming who wrote (3986 ) 3/5/2001 1:09:59 PM From: Crystal ball Read Replies (2) | Respond to Do you know much about the apache opensource community. Surely your have heard of linux, and SUNW's opensource initiatives into JAVA open platform languages. The history of microprocessing chips, defined as MOORE's LAW an INTEL founder and microchip co-inventor, is that chip power keeps doubling, and keeps getting cheaper. MOORE's LAW is still correct, as we have moved from the like of early chips and the 8086 to the 80486, and pentiums, and now into gigabyte chips, and the like. Servers are dedicated to pumping out information, most today are still run on the equivalent of 486 machines (slower chips than pentiums). The software is just as integral as the plumbing, that is the buses, clock speeds, ports etc., and that software is still dominated by APACHE rather than the UNIX flavors of the month, and Windows new NT entrance into the arena. The move now is to do the same for networked appliances and other network devices, such as PALMs running not just on the PALM OS, but also WAP and Bluetooth, and the like. Wireless devices lead to more Wireless networks, but that does not mean that there is not a wired infrastructure behind the wireless networks, although, there does not have to be one, there just usually is for bandwidth, and legacy reasons and failsafes etc., but the future will be more toward the wireless end user and empowering that individual means to take the client side devices and relieve server side devices of the computing overhead by making the client hand helds more and more powerful, eventually being peer server like devices communicating directly, with their own routing protocols to like peer wireless server like hand held PALM like devices. Eventually all devices will be both clients and servers, all wireless but able to port to wired networks too. Most wired end suers devices will be for final static storage, like the devices and services provided by NTAP and other providers. That is, data Warehouse servers will outlast other kinds of servers, such as application servers (Sorry ASP people) and other file and communication "wired" FILE servers.
