Friday, February 16, 2007
Serious Moolah
The typical Fortune 500 company spends 3.6 percent of revenues on network services, gear and assets. Last year, more than $327 billion. The largest recurring cost is wide area network transport costs. Any wonder why enterprises are looking to switch that function to Ethernet?
Gary Kim has been a digital infra analyst and journalist for more than 30 years, covering the business impact of technology, pre- and post-internet. He sees a similar evolution coming with AI. General-purpose technologies do not come along very often, but when they do, they change life, economies and industries.
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