Lights On But No One Home At Sun Grid

cygnusx writes "The Register reveals that Sun's pay-for-use grid computing services hasn't picked up a single customer yet." From the article: "The missing customers prove quite shocking when you consider that utility computing users must agree to be named in marketing programs as part of their contract with Sun - a fact learned by The Register and confirmed by a Sun spokeswoman. More than one year since it first started hyping the 'pay-for-use grid computing services' Sun is still weeks away from presenting a customer to the public. The program has proved much tougher to sell that Sun ever imagined."

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Re:fp?

[EvilEddie]

Obviously this news article is about as popular as SUN's new program

I volunteer!

[Anonymous Coward]

Can they compile my Computer Science homework for me?

It could simply be advanced trolling

[Work Account]

Nothing like that even exists. A bored PR person sent out a fake Onion-style news release and the rest is, as they say, history.

You were just one of the biters ;-)

Re:It's entirely SUN's own fault

[Anonymous Coward]

The average software developer could survive without eating for a very long time!

And probably be healthier too.

Pssshhh thats because

[caffeinex36]

"My Zombie network has 1000000000x the computing power of suns grid....

and you can use mine for some good CC numbers. any company CLEARING doing a cost benefit analysis realizes that its much cheaper to go with me."

-Founder of P0wnd Zombi3 N3twerkz

Re:It's entirely SUN's own fault

[dwandy]

...just when I was starting to miss the good'ol dot-com days...

It's so nice to see that not every company has abandoned the idea of not having a revenue stream...