19 July 2007 - 11:50pm, Andreas Schwarz (not verified) said:
Hi Bob,
I handle public relations for Greg, and saw your post on Redshift. Speaking for myself (and not Greg), I agree that Sun isn't there yet. Then again, nobody else is, either, or Google would buy hardware from them.
What we're doing is directing Sun's $2 billion / year in R&D to solve these issues -- what we call "brutal efficiency at massive scale." For example, check out the efficiencies in Project Blackbox (www.sun.com/blackbox). That's just a starting point.
Regardless, definitely agree with your main point, and looking forward to Part II tomorrow!
Hi Bob, I handle public
Hi Bob,
I handle public relations for Greg, and saw your post on Redshift. Speaking for myself (and not Greg), I agree that Sun isn't there yet. Then again, nobody else is, either, or Google would buy hardware from them.
What we're doing is directing Sun's $2 billion / year in R&D to solve these issues -- what we call "brutal efficiency at massive scale." For example, check out the efficiencies in Project Blackbox (www.sun.com/blackbox). That's just a starting point.
Regardless, definitely agree with your main point, and looking forward to Part II tomorrow!
Andreas
P.S. For the record, Salesforce.com: http://www.sun.com/smi/Press/sunflash/2001-12/sunflash.20011204.1.xml
And Twitter:
http://twitter.com/blog/2007/06/under-hood-at-twitter.html
So while there's certainly room to improve, our record is better than suggested above ;)