Charles Craft wrote:

>> Well, state-of-the-art networking gear is 40Gb to 100Gb...
>> (multiple interfaces thereof, of course.)
>>
>> BillW
>>   =20
> I got lectured to when I used "state-of-the-art" in a technical=20
> discussion 25 years ago.
> It's all on a 7-10 year cycle:
>=20
> Mainframe / Timeshare - centralized
> Open Systems - distributed
> Three (or more) tier web apps - centralized
> Mobile apps - distributed
>=20
> :-)

The proliferation of Linux servers in the enterprise environment brings
back IBM mainframes running hundreds (thousands) of virtual Linux
systems... :)

Gerhard
--=20
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