Is one application powerful enough to be the core lever on which any enterprise can make a significant shift in infrastructure? And if, in theory, such a thing is possible is it likely that application will be Customer Relationship Management (CRM)?

The question comes to mind because of last week

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At the back end of last year Sun Microsystems came up with Project Blackbox, a good marketing wheeze in the form of a `datacentre in a box

The trouble with High Performance Computers (HPC), otherwise known as supercomputers to the hoi poloi, was neatly summed up at the recent International Supercomputer Conference in Dresden by Burton Smith, Microsoft