cygnussphere
02-03-2004, 08:03 PM
<br><table width="90%" border="1" cellpadding="5" cellspacing="1" bordercolor="#63635A" bgcolor="#E7E7E2" align="center"><tr><td style="font-size: 12px; font-style: italic;"><b>The uncertain promise of computing that is foolproof, invisible and everywhere.</b><br><br>It is increasingly painful to watch Carly Fiorina, the boss of Hewlett-Packard (HP), as she tries to explain to yet another conference audience what her new grand vision of “adaptive” information technology is about. It has something to do with “Darwinian reference architectures”, she suggests, and also with “modularising” and “integrating”, as well as with lots of “enabling” and “processes”. IBM, HP's arch rival, is trying even harder, with a marketing splurge for what it calls “on-demand computing”. Microsoft's Bill Gates talks of “seamless computing”. Other vendors pre<br>fer “ubiquitous”, “autonomous” or “utility” computing. Forrester Research, a consultancy, likes “organic”. Gartner, a rival, opts for “real-time”.</td></tr></table><br><br>For the complete article, go <a href="http://www.economist.com/business/displayStory.cfm?story_id=2352183">here</a>. <br><br>Thanks to <b>MrTRS</b> for submitting this article!