Monday, October 28, 2002

Sun CTO posits new computing era. Papadopoulos outlines "network scaled computer" era [InfoWorld: Top News] Viewing the increasingly complex, networked computing environment from an IT manager's perspective, Papadopoulos acknowledged the high cost of ownership confronting user companies and proposed that Sun will solve the problem with technology, not people. With as much as 80 percent of a typical IT budget spent on people operating a company's IT infrastructure, vendors are faced with a choice of solutions to offer users, he said. "You can go after this by going after services," Papadapoulos said, referring to IBM's recent decision to acquire services provider PwC Consulting. Or, a company can decide "I'm going to engineer that out," he said. Sun's focus will be on the latter, and on technologies that forward data center automation, according to Papadopoulos. Let's engineer the admin chores out of the our IT infrastruture so that we can concentrate on what's interesting: building interesting apps ! 10:05:46 AM    comment []