open source computing
jon at rejon.org
jon at rejon.org
Fri Apr 8 14:09:17 EDT 2011
Followup, a great argument for anyone who tries to differentiate
software and hardware still:
"Specifically, despite what most people think, Facebook and Google are
hardware companies, and the former's open-source datacenter will
potentially help it compete in the datacenter arena with its much
larger and deeper-pocketed rival."
"But as we're fond of pointing out, Google is essentially a maker of
very capital-intensive, full-custom, warehouse-scale computers—a
"hardware company," if you will. It monetizes those datacenters by
keeping as many users as possible connected to them, and by serving
ads to those users."
Unfortunately, when something like thie openhype (compute) initiative
gets announced with all these major partners, its very hard for small
guys to get a chunk.
Jon
On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 12:23 PM, jon at rejon.org <jon at rejon.org> wrote:
> Did you all see Facebook's "opening" of their datacenters? Competition
> against the big google...
>
> http://arstechnica.com/business/news/2011/04/why-facebook-open-sourced-its-datacenters.ars
>
> Thoughts?
>
> Jon
>
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