I think you are exaggerating Google's impact on commodity hardware — or even the impact of the whole data-center-on-commodity-hardware trend. Estimates put Goog

I think you are exaggerating Google's impact on commodity hardware — or even the impact of the whole data-center-on-commodity-hardware trend. Estimates put Google's server count around the million mark [1]. Worldwide PC sales are estimated about 320 millions, per year, and more than 1.5 billions PC are estimated to be in use currently [2]. [1] http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/14/whos-got-the-most-web-servers/ http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/05/14/whos-... [2] http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444657804578048981461803220.html http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000087239639044465780457804... and http://www.etforecasts.com/products/ES_pcww1203.htm http://www.etforecasts.com/products/ES_pcww1203.htm