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The IT Industry's Red Shift Theory

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the like-a-big-shiny-bubble dept.

Stony Stevenson writes "Sun Microsystems' CTO, Greg Papadopoulos has come out with a Red Shift Theory for IT which posits that an 'elite group of companies are consuming inordinate amounts of IT infrastructure, well beyond most other businesses, and that their demand is growing exponentially. This trend, Papadopoulos maintains, has implications not just for IT's most insatiable consumers, but for the structure of the computing industry itself. It's not just about how many CPU cycles a company uses. Papadopoulos argues that red-shift companies will enjoy exponential business growth in the coming years. Blue-shift companies — those whose processing needs aren't exploding — will grow at about the same rate as GDP, he says.'"

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  1. Huh? by Bombula · · Score: 5, Funny

    One shift two shift, red shift blue shift?

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  2. Red Giants by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    The problem then is that red giants end up as white dwarfs, and no-one will do business with a dwarf!

  3. But... Doppler... by tehSpork · · Score: 4, Funny

    But they used the Doppler effect to explain it, surely that little scientific reference counts for something?

    1. Re:But... Doppler... by TheLink · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yeah, it should be a black shift - where your company stops buying lots of expensive Sun hardware and shifts from being "in the red" to "back in black". ;).

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  4. Re:no, no, no by Moderatbastard · · Score: 4, Funny

    Come on, you're oversimplifying. He also says slower growing companies grow more slowly. It's that little bit of extra insight that makes the difference between ending up as CTO instead of a janitor in the modern corporate world.

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  5. Inventing Terminology for CEO's by florescent_beige · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't be harsh. Proactively leveraging six sigma synergies in a blue-red shift discontinuously changing ecosystem leads to a re-efficiently contracting contingency workforce paradigm tending toward the rightsize.

    Only a fool would ignore the gainshare effect of empowerment strategies that insourced intellectual capital reallocation due to lean Kaizen open door management obviously creates. The mosaic effects of capital market global forward-trends account for fully 4 points share of Sun's complex-component earnings per diluted ownerstake last quarter.

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  6. Every company is racing away from every other by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    And the rate of expansion seems to be increasing from the little-understood Dark Capitalism.