Silicon Valley investors have been characterized as lemmings charging towards the latest buzzword (defined as cliffs) with tribal abandon.  Trends I recall from the top of my head include RISC (reduced instruction set computers), client-server, PDA’s, browsers, search engines, java, security, appliances, managed services, Linux, virtualization, mobile applications, cloud, big data and the latest craze – Software Defined Networking (SDN).

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