I think that where ARM <i>could</i> have a lot to offer is in distributing storage and compute more evenly... for distributed bigtable or cassandra-like storage, it could make a lot of sense to pair 16-32gb of fast ssd storage to a 4-8 core ARM node... With the amount of I&#x2F;O bound data per compute node reduced, and lower cost per node, this could yeild much better results than the big boxes for distributed databases.<p>For many other chores, I&#x27;m not sure if it makes as much sense... but that&#x27;s juse my $.02 on the issue.  I still think it&#x27;s a pretty cool option, but not sure how well it works for a lot of different areas.