The next big thing?

The article discusses the potential for a computing infrastructure using supply systems. Firms will outsource their computing to specialists (IBM, HP, etc) and pay for it as they use it, just as they now pay for their electricity, gas and water. This vision will rely on two unglamorous technologies....

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Bibliographic Details
Published in:	Economist Vol. 370; no. 8358; pp. 51 - 53
Format:	Article
Published:	Economist Newspaper Limited 1/17/2004
Subjects:	Web services Application service providers Computer network protocols International Business Machines Corp. Microsoft Corp. Computer service industry Standards XML (Extensible Markup Language) Simple Object Access Protocol (Computer network protocol) Variable costs Contracting out Internet industry World Wide Web Merrick, Phillip WebMethods Inc.
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost