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Technical perspective: the data center is the computer

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Internet services are already significant forces in searching, retail purchases, music downloads, and auctions. One vision of 21st century IT is that most users will be accessing such services over a descendant of the cell phone rather than running shrink-wrapped software on a descendant of the PC.

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            cover image Communications of the ACM
            Communications of the ACM  Volume 51, Issue 1
            50th anniversary issue: 1958 - 2008
            January 2008
            106 pages
            ISSN:0001-0782
            EISSN:1557-7317
            DOI:10.1145/1327452
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