But what's got software vendors really hopping are the economic and business changes being imposed upon them by the Internet. Lots of customers, and not just small ones, are asking about hosting. Even if they end up deciding against running their applications in a hosted environment, customers seem to want assurances that software vendors have strategies and technologies that would enable them to do so. Data is a service. The network is a service.
Storage is a service.
It means centralized computing is back in style again, at least as long as networking bandwidth really does increase the way everyone is expecting it to do. And with that, we've come full circle. TalkBack below and let me know what you think is really behind the renewed war of words. Lewis is right. I agree with Alexander Dorn.