Time to denationalise the software monopolies
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| Utility computing is Silicon Valley's latest uber trend. Beneath the
| talk of software as a service (SaaS), Linux on 32-bit servers, and
| infrastructure management is a belief that powerful and productive
| systems can be delivered, and charged, as if they are electricity
| or the telephone service.
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| While SaaS and Linux are certainly changing the landscape, they are
| the latest manifestation of a trend that has been snaking its way
| through computing for years: to make IT a more standardided,
| repeatable and a more controllable process.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/21/utility_computing/
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