It really is a pendulum isn’t it? Is it driven by cost dynamics? Computers become expensive and incentivize sharing (mainframes, cloud, sevens, ...). Prices com

It really is a pendulum isn’t it? Is it driven by cost dynamics? Computers become expensive and incentivize sharing (mainframes, cloud, sevens, ...). Prices come down — either because workload become more complex or hardware becomes cheaper — and the incentives for exclusive ownership come back.