Heh... this reminds me of hemlines in fashion. They change every other year.

Remember when distributed computing was all the rage? It wasnt' that long ago. Just before that was consolidation. Just before that was distributed computing. Just before that was.... etc, etc, ad infinitum.

Now we even have distrubuted computing with "central management". That's a hemline with a big ol' slit down the legs to make it sexy. 😛