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  From: David Newall <davidn@rebel.net.au>
  To  : Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org>
  Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 16:14:39 +0930 (CST)

Re: commoditi[sz]ing?

Alan Kennington <akenning@topology.org> wrote:
> "Now the data centre is also commoditising, with 
>  just a few operating systems and just a
>  few hardware platforms to choose from."
>
> I'm just perplexed.
> This word commoditising just doesn't make sense to me.

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> PS. In personal e-mails, please use encryption is you can.
> We should all be using it.

Perhaps they mean that the data centre is being filled with commodities,
even to the exclusion of non-commodity components.  It makes sense to
me; but note I'm referring to what you quoted without the context of
the rest of the original article.

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