[email protected] (Timothy Sipples) writes: > Yes, servers, software, and perhaps even services are dead. Everything is > dead. Thus I suggest unplugging every HP X86, distributed HP/UX, and > NonStop Kernel server you own, now, before it's too late.
there have been a number of articles over the past year or so that server virtualization consolidation (especially by the high volume customers) could result in major discontinuity in the server market. with 10:1 server consolidation there possibly is 10:1 long-term decline in server market revenues ... since large volume operations are making ten times increased productivity of their hardware (using virtualization to get 10:1 server consolidation) ... so they would only need 1/10th as much hardware (as they had required in the past ... which had got them in situation where they had humongous numbers of servers with 10% utilization or less, creating the 10:1 server consolidation opportunity). during transition phase ... server sales might even drop to zero ... in the period that large volume operations possibly are finding they can consolidate all their operations onto 1/10th the number of servers ... there could be a long period where they are able to use the remaining, idle 90% of the servers (that had been moved off of) ... for new applications ... in lieu of having to buy new servers. Until new uses have been found for that potential 90% of current, idle server install base (that has freed up with 10:1 server consolidation from virtualization) ... server purchases possibly drop to zero. -- 40+yrs virtualization experience (since Jan68), online at home since Mar1970 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [email protected] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
