begin quoting Mike Marion as of Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 12:46:14PM -0800: > Quoting Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >Why would companies object to just buying a bigger chunk of the solution > >and buying that chunk in a "plug it in and use it" box? Things like > >this could > >be housed in a tin shed in a parking lot i.e. it has the potential to > >be a _lot_ > >less expensive infrastructure than the existing > >builders/contractors/architects > >approach. > > Well, just looking at them.. the complete lack of space to really do > much of anything in there is a huge negative in my mind, > claustrophobic people would really freak I'd think. If you wanted to
I used to work at a company where the tape vault and paper was kept in a long narrow hallway/closet. If you opened the tape vault doors, you blocked the hallway completely; carrying a box of paper (11x17) meant you hand to be careful about scraping your knuckles... Worry about claustrophobic people seems a bit daft... get 'em a job doing data-entry or something. > swap out some machines or networking bits... there's barely any room, > what a pain. If you know you're going to grow over time so that it > would take a few of those.. what a pain to have to have external > hookups of power to each one, having to secure each one moving between > them to work on different hosts, etc. I'd be suprised if these come w/o a support contract. Let the Sun engineer get in there and swap out bits. > Like I said.. (aside from onsite usage for specific remote things) > they might make sense for a company for a temporary solution until a > data center (or colo) is online, or if they're never going to grow > beyond one. But I just do not see companies having a big chunk of > their parking lot (and there's a nice problem) filled with a bunch of > these side by side. Surely you can stack 'em one atop another.... > Maybe they'll prove me wrong.. but I wouldn't bet money on it. Remember, it's not the actual technological benefit that counts, it's the marketing spin that makes the sales. -- _ |\_ \| -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
