Apropos Moores law, I have an anecdote ... I was doing some DBA work in my previous work place. We had one central database server, and we were always pushing it hard. The database server was constantly "bleeding edge" - the very best "ordinary" server we could get. We often we had performance problems - and most of the time we solved the performance problems by upgrading the hardware. We were efficiently surfing on Moores law to keep up with business growth and growth of database size.