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When Mark Twain said that, he almost certainly was not thinking about the fate of network operators and mini-computer companies, but it seems more and

When Mark Twain said that, he almost certainly was not thinking about the fate of network operators and mini-computer companies, but it seems more and more likely that 20 years from now Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, Comcast, Cingular and T-Mobile will be where DEC, Prime, Data General, Stratus, and Tandem are today. Sun was right, at least about one thing – the network is the computer. Now, more than ever people get IT services from the cloud, whether its Gmail or Salesforce, or a hosted IP PBX. That trend, if anything, seems to be accelerating. So, if the network is the computer, what forces will sh

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