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The information processing industry is being driven by several forces: Moore's law says that technology improves a factor of four every three years. Metcalf's law says that the utility of the network increases as the square of the users. Grove's law says that commoditization requires horizontal rather than vertical integration. Gates' law says that commodity software has price near marginal cost. These forces are completely changing the way we buy and build information processing systems. Now, everything is networked and everything is built from commodity components (both software and hardware) that interoperate. Both clients and servers are built from the same commodity components -- CyberBricks. This talk sketches these trends and predicts further changes.
Dr. Gray is a specialist in database and transaction processing computer systems. He works at Microsoft's San Francisco Bay Area Research Center with a focus on scaleable computing -- building superservers from commodity hardware and software components. His main focus is on automatic parallelism and fault tolerance within an NTcluster. He has worked at Digital, Tandem, IBM, and AT&T on database, transaction processing, and operating systems. The most successful of these systems are DB2, IMS, NonStop SQL, and Rdb. He helped write the world's fastest sort program: 1.6 GB/minute. He is editor of the Performance Handbook for Database and Transaction Processing Systems, and coauthor of Transaction Processing Concepts and Techniques. He is an ACM Fellow, NAE member and serves on the NRC Computer Science and Technology Board. He is Editor in Chief of the VLDB Journal, Trustee of the VLDB Foundation, and is Editor of the Morgan Kaufmann series on Data Management. He authored many technical articles, frequently lectures at universities, and often reviews customer application designs.
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