Me Guru Too ?

When you have worked for the past twenty years you have seen multiple management trends pass.
In the information technology we had the mainframes that working fine, but to expensive in the operational, cpu , new development costs and they and the people operating them were not flexible. That needed to be distributed with client/server , because that was more flexible and the cpu costs were lower. The user interfaces improved too. But after a while the operational costs spiralled and the Dynamic Link Libraries (DLL's) were all over the PC places. So that needed to be changed in more on the server and less on the client. Seperation of the tiers with Model-View-Controller (MVC) approach made the client tier smaller and the server tier bigger. Now Larry Ellison announced Oracle is going into hardware. A machines is delivered tunes for the data warehouse. So the mainframe is back. Just in a 20 year cycle.
Would you believe I told you so, twenty years ago ?
It is hard to check if that is true, since blogs didn't exists yet at that time and the scriblings Ithen made on this subject are lost. So somethings have changed instead of the mainframes with the each supplier having it own network flavour, we all use tcp/ip, http etc. So defacto standards are gained too over twenty years. So this was all necessary in a path to using standards. Standards that were asked for at the time and even already existed.
The path to all these standards just needs to be alone the side roads in which different angles are tried.