>you also assume new hardware prices & capability will stagnate Well shall I break the bad news to you.. for the past few years this is starting to look more a

>you also assume new hardware prices & capability will stagnate Well shall I break the bad news to you.. for the past few years this is starting to look more and more true, for server hardware at least (CPUs, DRAM, SSDs). Sure, you can get more (cores, GB of DRAM, TB of NAND) now in a same package, but also at a higher cost.