George Newstrom, head of Dell’s federal government defense and national security business, outlines the evolution of information technology from mainframes and servers to «disruptive» technologies such as cloud computing and mobile devices.
Platform one saw mainframes and terminals hit the market and Newstrom writes this development helped government and other industry end users access thousands of applications, reaching millions of end users.
Many places are in the second platform of client and server offerings, which started nearly 25 years ago according to Newstrom.