I used to think the same thing - but you have to check thier pricing of the last few years - its quite competitive straight up. Factor in other costs, its a bargain.
www.tallsails.com
I will take a acerbit visionary over a hype machine that does not know what drives the tech industry anyday. Who you gonna bet on, Ballmer? http://www.tallsails.com/
good point. Except he insn't running the show (yet - many articles hint he may soon). I don't know as much about him as the other 3, but here is to hoping I ha ve to learn it...
Its amazing how low utilization of servers is. Developers love lots of servers, but don't use them nearly as much as they say...
see article "Virtualization is the COOLEST thing" at http://blog.tallsails.com/
Its clear the industry is consolidating to a few major players with a complete stack. MSFT has one, SUN has one, IBM has an "assemblage" of one, Oracle needs to join one (SUN?) or become one.
www.tallsails.com
Our datacenter costs include UPS cost, cooling costs, rack space, operators, 24x7 on call techs, backups, off site backup storage, which multiple the CPU box cost by several factors.
The current big users of this are financial institutions running monte carlo analysis of stock and commodities markets - they use thousands of CPUs at a time, every day.
The other nice feature to this, is you get glass-house data center capability, but can turn it off, which is not as easy with your own lease agreements, etc...
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I used to think the same thing - but you have to check thier pricing of the last few years - its quite competitive straight up. Factor in other costs, its a bargain. www.tallsails.com
I will take a acerbit visionary over a hype machine that does not know what drives the tech industry anyday. Who you gonna bet on, Ballmer? http://www.tallsails.com/
good point. Except he insn't running the show (yet - many articles hint he may soon). I don't know as much about him as the other 3, but here is to hoping I ha ve to learn it...
You have to pick one if you are a developer.... who do you think knows where the industry is headed, and who thinks they ARE the industry? http://blog.tallsails.com/2006/04/18/who-are-you-g onna-bet-on.aspx
With the new "live" approach, the new boss from Lotus Notes trying to turn the company, I really think MSFT (and I am no rabid fan) will compete well with SAP and peoplesoft. To bad its the wrong way to go... http://blog.tallsails.com/2006/04/19/google-hooks- up-w-salesforce-and-oracle.aspx
Its amazing how low utilization of servers is. Developers love lots of servers, but don't use them nearly as much as they say... see article "Virtualization is the COOLEST thing" at http://blog.tallsails.com/
Its clear the industry is consolidating to a few major players with a complete stack. MSFT has one, SUN has one, IBM has an "assemblage" of one, Oracle needs to join one (SUN?) or become one. www.tallsails.com
Our datacenter costs include UPS cost, cooling costs, rack space, operators, 24x7 on call techs, backups, off site backup storage, which multiple the CPU box cost by several factors.
The current big users of this are financial institutions running monte carlo analysis of stock and commodities markets - they use thousands of CPUs at a time, every day.
The other nice feature to this, is you get glass-house data center capability, but can turn it off, which is not as easy with your own lease agreements, etc...
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