22 July 2007 - 4:57pm, Jason Wells (not verified) said:
As I understand it, redshift computing seems to contains several related but separate ideas. There's the notion that hyperscale computing (exemplified by Google having zillions of servers) requires new IT practices. Then there's the notion of hypergrowth, infrastructure growth far in excess of Moore's Law replacement levels. Okay, that's fine. But so what? Presumably Sun wants to target this massive growth opportunity, but it seems like a fancy way of saying "we want to sell where demand for our products is highest." When was that not the case?
Also: will Sun learn to love selling lots of commodity-priced hardware? They seemed to have great reluctance facing the Linux threat, which was very ugly to their traditional business model. Do they plan to out-Linux Linux in the realm of super-cheap commodity servers?
As I understand it, redshift
As I understand it, redshift computing seems to contains several related but separate ideas. There's the notion that hyperscale computing (exemplified by Google having zillions of servers) requires new IT practices. Then there's the notion of hypergrowth, infrastructure growth far in excess of Moore's Law replacement levels. Okay, that's fine. But so what? Presumably Sun wants to target this massive growth opportunity, but it seems like a fancy way of saying "we want to sell where demand for our products is highest." When was that not the case?
Also: will Sun learn to love selling lots of commodity-priced hardware? They seemed to have great reluctance facing the Linux threat, which was very ugly to their traditional business model. Do they plan to out-Linux Linux in the realm of super-cheap commodity servers?