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WHAT?! We'll upgrade alright - because China's already doing it!
You sure didn't ask THIS I.T. Professional!
I can't believe you would print such a ridiculous article. It serves just either to inflame or offer more ammo to the idiots who think we can just sit back and keep things as they are.
Back in the day ... we sure worked hard on swapping and paging algorithms, but we sure as heck didn't say "well we don't need large memory cache, that would just be a waste of hardware"!
The big boys on the block are already steaming ahead with IPV6. It has all kinds builtin benefits over IPV4. We'll look back and wonder how we got along on the net with out it. Yeah, there may be even a predominance of folks who just want to put it off, but just like most of the previous net related changes - we will do it, and the net will be the better for it.