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Sun Grid Utility Goes Live for Employees
museumpeace writes "CNET is reporting that Sun Microsystems turned on its Grid computing utility, hosting large ERP applications for its employees to test out the server infrastructure and user acceptance of the Computing-as-metered-utility model. General availability is scheduled for October. The rates? "Sun is offering processing and storage in a pay-as-you-go arrangement of $1 per CPU per hour, delivered via an Internet connection". Sun is still retooling its Thin Client interfaces and support SW. Experts quoted in the article wonder if Sun can make any money this way." Slashdot also covered the original announcement back in February.
I wonder how they plan to compete with the distributed/remote computing power provided by all of the unpatched and unprotected Windows based systems in the world that are freely available to anyone with a couple scripts and an internet connection?
Maybe it can be used to improve OpenOffice load times.
Yah! Now I can get my stats back up. /me cracks knucles
Ouch that hurt... Sun's spirit will always be amongst us.
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With a Microsoft partnership, we now understand how we plan to have the oomph to run Windows Vista when it comes out.
$1 per CPU per hour...the true money-making scheme here is that if you run Linux, they'll charge you the $699 for each processor on behalf of SCO.
So for $50 bucks an hour, you can run a SWING application almost without a performance drop.
With the licensing model, you can run apps with it, but you can't alter any data that passes through without our permission. Want to see the results of your calculations? You'll have to sign an NDA.
Sun Microsystems? Hey weren't they that big dot-com company that wanted programmable toasters? What are they doing these days?
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