The server and networking lines you talk about are yesterday’s battles. We are now talking about what computing will look like in the future. We are obviously standing on a shift as major as when DC architecture’s started moving away from Mainframes.

I’d like to see GigaOM tell me what the new world looks like instead of teaser trailers of the M&A Trilogy with legendary superheroes duking it out for supremacy of Acme-Gotham city!

A few perspectives to start off that train of thought. Cisco has not declared war on the server market, its extending its footprint in networking to include the smallest but fastest growing piece of that pie, the virtualized server niche. This is not a desperate move by John Cambers because he as promised Wall Street growth and has no choice but to take on former partners. It is one more step in the Cisco evolution of selling hardwares in the DC1.0 era to figuring out what will be its SAAS strategy that will lead the entrie company’s strategy. The Unified Computing announcement should be seen in line with its consumer play, its decision to move its Services team to Banglore and its social networking acquisitions. There’s a story there. I’m just not smart enough to figure it out!

Similarly IBM’s Eclipse and Sun’s Java team getting together is as monumental as the everyone ganging up on Bonaparte. There are non server angles to that story and they are the sharpest ones. I’m damn sure its about the Cloud somehow too….

Let’s get on it and figure this out. Its beginning to get murkier then a paramecium pond warming party.