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, [email protected] <[email protected]> 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 > > -- > Jon Phillips > http://rejon.org/ | http://fabricatorz.com/ > chat/skype: kidproto | irc: rejon > +1.415.830.3884 (global) | +1-510-499-0894 (sf) > +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing) > -- Jon Phillips http://rejon.org/ | http://fabricatorz.com/ chat/skype: kidproto | irc: rejon +1.415.830.3884 (global) | +1-510-499-0894 (sf) +86-187-1003-9974 (beijing) _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): [email protected] Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
