Aberdeen's Bochman said IT managers are positive about their experience with the network-centric solution.
From combined arms warfare, to AirLand Battle, to maneuver, to network-centric warfare, this has been the trend.
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Network-centric warfare became unaffordable just as the big bills began to arrive.
But the network-centric vision began to be sidelined after Robert Gates replaced Rumsfeld in late 2006, and it fell completely out of favor once the Obama defense team was installed in 2009.
The solution: For a few billion dollars, Apple (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) could get into the phone business itself, buying the spectrum it needs to offer not just voice service for all those iPhone users, but to build the broadband wireless links it needs to offer next generation, network-centric computing, communications and entertainment.
PlayStation Network supports free community-centric online gameplay, exclusive games from independent developers and major publishers, and a broad range of entertainment applications across movies, music, and sports.
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The company's also setting up a game-centric social network, where you'll be able share your game progress (and even screen grabs) with other gamers.
The joint venture, to be called SK-EarthLink, will lease its network from existing carriers and focus on attracting high-end, data-centric customers.
Our differentiated mobile-centric approach to the access network and value proposition continues to resonate with customers as the global proliferation of mobile devices and the BYOD trend fundamentally change how users securely connect to their enterprise resources.
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American Express has successfully implemented its spend-centric model and closed-loop network to achieve growth over the last few years and was one of the few financial companies to come out of the economic crisis of 2008 virtually unscathed.
If priced low enough, a Facebook-centric phone could be appealing to Facebook fans in developing countries, where the network is popular and smartphone sales are still rising sharply.
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