Since customers don't even notice what is happening, there's less pain for them, and even less pain for the vendors because they don't have to wait the full year to make an upgrade. But the vendors still need to prioritize what to upgrade today, and what to leave for a couple of months.

Long-term bodily changes occur. Pain becomes less bothersome, and if stress is exacerbating the pain, then this approach can work in the long term and can relieve the pain entirely.

Stress does not cause pain, but it can exacerbate it and make it worse. Much of chronic pain is 'remembered' pain. It's the constant firing of brain cells leading to a memory of pain that lasts, even though the bodily symptoms causing the pain are no longer there. The pain is residing because of the neurological connections in the brain itself.

I think we will need to see much more of that down the road.

The other thing to keep in mind is, it's not just about uptime. It's also about performance and response time. Some of these solutions are slower to refresh. All the vendors need to focus not only on uptime but also on performance.

Hybrid deployment will be more important to companies. Whatever can get them on a system quickly.