{"id":1066,"date":"2006-12-08T12:55:22","date_gmt":"2006-12-08T17:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/update\/index.php\/2006\/12\/08\/the-world-needs-only-five-computers\/"},"modified":"2015-09-14T08:07:51","modified_gmt":"2015-09-14T12:07:51","slug":"the-world-needs-only-five-computers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/2006\/12\/08\/the-world-needs-only-five-computers\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;The world needs only five computers&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pcin.net\/c\/?1031\">TechRepublic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Industry lore likely is wrong to attribute to IBM Chairman Thomas J. Watson the famous misjudgment that there&#8217;s a world market for five computers.<\/p>\n<p>But Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos thinks the idea will pan out eventually.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The world needs only five computers,&#8221; Papadopoulos said on his blog. He then listed seven&#8211;Google, eBay, Amazon.com, Microsoft, Yahoo, Salesforce.com, and what he called the Great Computer of China&#8211;but let&#8217;s not split hairs. He was trying to make the point that &#8220;there will be, more or less, five hyperscale, pan-global broadband computing services giants.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From TechRepublic: Industry lore likely is wrong to attribute to IBM Chairman Thomas J. Watson the famous misjudgment that there&#8217;s a world market for five computers. But Sun Microsystems Chief Technology Officer Greg Papadopoulos thinks the idea will pan out eventually. &#8220;The world needs only five computers,&#8221; Papadopoulos said on his blog. He then listed &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1977,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-computer-news","7":"anons"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1977"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1066\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/pcin.net\/update\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}