Bill Zeitler, the senior vice president of IBM's systems and technology group, said IBM would garner 1 point of market share in the server market each year between now and 2010 in, with server growth in the mid single digits.
It seems obvious that at some point the home is going to need a standalone server big enough to store and manage the endless gobs of data that will make up our entertainment universe in the coming years.
Mountain View's Locke suggests that the server location be taken out of the equation by basing the point of sale on where the company's headquarters are located, and Hennepin County's Johnson pointed out that software and computer-generated music transactions may prove to be undetectable and therefore untaxable.
The point is that it would violate this principle to install both a public Web server and an internal support system housing sensitive information on the same virtual server.