ABCNEWS.com : Silicon Insider: The Empire of Ants

This cycle is the endless vacillation between centralization and decentralization. This wave affects every part of the modern, tech-driven corporation, from products to organization charts.

An interesting commentary on the historical cycles of IT philosophy. What I find most interesting in my own experience is how slow state government is to believe in an era where the pendulum has swung to decentralization that we should be moving toward centralization.