Richard Wirt, general manager of Intel’s Software and Solutions Group, presented his view of the coming world of corporate computing in arnspeech Aug. 16 at the LinuxWorld Conference and Expo in San Francisco. rnrn

Wirt sees a three-layer arrangement,rnwith virtualized computing resources as the foundation, arnservices-oriented architecture of software above it, and actual businessrntransaction software at the top. Spanning all three layers is technologyrnto provide and enforce security, administer policies such as processrnreponse time, and manage the computing equipment.