In the past few years, the computing industry has seen significant paradigm shift of capacity from high-end enterprise to low-end consumers. In software, the example would be the open source projects. Many software projects now rely on open source code as an initial step to get things started and then companies build on top of such platform. In hardware, we see that commodity electronics is overtaking enterprise solutions. Although it is true that in many instance that high-end solutions provide better support, customization, and capabilities. However, when all things are considered and added, commodity hardware clearly outperform enterprise solutions via brute force simply by allocating more resources and getting more out of something per dollar spent. This is already true in microprocessors, hard disks, and network interfaces, and probably true for many other computing devices and peripherals. As the trend continues in driving commodity, end users will have access to more computing capabilities than ever before.
