InfoWorld
by Greg Nawrocki, August 26, 2005

...Andreas Antonopoulos from Nemertes Research describes the IT architecture progression in terms of a pendulum "swinging every few decades from centralized to-decentralized and back again." In a recent column, he suggests that the mainframe isn't coming back -- next generation IT architectures are simply borrowing the most attractive qualities of mainframes. It's a great read for additional clarity on the "centralized vs. decentralized" and "mainframe vs. scale-out" discussions...