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The IT Industry's Red Shift Theory
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.'"
You beat me to it, except I was going to say 'Newsflash: CTO of an expensive IT tech company predicts that companies who spend more money on expensive IT stuff will prosper. Others doomed.'
Between this and the 'AT&T Cripples Blackberry' crap that made it to the front page, Slashdot is reaching new lows with regards to irrelevant 'news'.