I was struck by the similarity between MIT’s vision of the PC in 2019 and Cisco’s Unified Computing vision for data centers. Both bring connectivity to the front, with processing as a means to an end.
Om Malik’s term “commputer” summarizes it nicely.
I don’t see any signs that Cisco has designs on the Personal Commputer market, but synchronicities like [...]
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Cisco’s vision goes beyond IT
IBM, Sun and Cisco in a word: comm-puting
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 [...]