On Thursday 28 December 2006 07:36, Jeff Johnson wrote: > It is a reasonable assumption that Sun did their homework. I wonder who > they are targeting.
http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2005/10/25/sun_grid_slip/ Sun's grid: lights on, no customers (October 2005) 14 months of utility computing vision Many of you will remember the fanfare and bravado surrounding Sun Microsystems' Sep. 2004 announcement of a $1 per hour per processor utility computing plan. What you won't remember is Sun revealing a single customer using the service. That's because it hasn't. [...] "It has been harder than we anticipated," said Aisling MacRunnels, Sun's senior director of utility computing in an interview. "It has been really hard. All of this has been a massive learning experience for us a company. I am not embarrassed to say this because we have been on the leading edge." [...] No idea if things have changed in the 14 months since that was written! -- Christopher Samuel - (03)9925 4751 - VPAC Deputy Systems Manager Victorian Partnership for Advanced Computing http://www.vpac.org/ Bldg 91, 110 Victoria Street, Carlton South, VIC 3053, Australia
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