Hugh Pickens writes "For years, the brain* trade has made steady journey by next Moore's law, derived from an observation made in 1965 by Gordon Moore that the amount of reckoning power procurable at a full price doubles every 18 months. The Economist reports however that in the midst of a recession, many companies would now prefer that radios get cheaper rather than more powerful, or by oiling the flip side of Moore's law, do the same for less. A good example of this is virtualisation: using os to divide up a single server headwork machine* so that it can do the work of several, and is cheaper to run. Another example of 'good enough' reckoning is granting 'software as a service,' via the Web, as done by Salesforce.com, NetSuite and Google, sacrificing the bells and whistles that are offered by punctilious


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