On Fri, 5 May 2006, Vic Cross wrote: > On 05/05/2006, at 5:53am, Fargusson.Alan wrote: > > > A long time ago I read that they did TCO studies, and found it less > > costly to buy lots of low cost hardware over buying fewer high cost > > systems. > > "A long time ago" is the point. When I read similar, the server > count was around 8000 -- it would seem that they've grown > considerably beyond that now. I doubt they've updated their TCO > analysis accordingly... :)
The real question is could a z9 outprocess existing clusters, out scale them at the same rate, and do so in such a fashion as to make it attractive to google to abandon its own in-house OS? > > Cheers, > Vic Cross > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit > http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390 > sleekfreak pirate broadcast http://sleekfreak.ath.cx:81/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For LINUX-390 subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: INFO LINUX-390 or visit http://www.marist.edu/htbin/wlvindex?LINUX-390
