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How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market

Posted by timothy on from the any-sauce-on-that? dept.

mattydread23 writes: It started out as a controversial idea inside Facebook. In four short years, the Open Compute Project has turned the $141 billion data-center computer-hardware industry on its head. This is the comprehensive history of the project, including interviews with founder Jonathan Heiliger and members of the financial services industry who are already on board, plus a dismissal from Google's own data center guru Urs Holzle.

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  1. Re:Summary plz by Hognoxious · · Score: 4, Funny

    what IS "Open Compute Project"

    236 points when playing buzzword scrabble?

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  2. Re:Summary plz by ArcadeMan · · Score: 4, Funny

    Given that this is Slashdot, I believe the appropriate reply to your question is "a Raspberry Pi Beowulf cluster, enclosed in a 3D-printed 1U rackmount unit with a cooling system controlled by an Arduino".

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