On 7/1/2010 9:47 AM, Lux, Jim (337C) wrote:
Giving it away for free to educational institutions worked for Unix, eh? (at least in the long run)
Maybe so, for some definition of "worked". I don't know how it was at other places, but at Berkeley, especially in the Computer Science Dept. where I worked, the presence of certain brands of equipment was like age rings in trees. By this I mean that 1991-1993 were the DEC years, 1994-1996 were the HP years, 1997-2000 were the Intel years (I'm making up these years and vendors). During these periods the vendors made their equipment available to us at extremely good prices. Then, something would happen that caused the vendors to loose interest, and another vendor would gain interest. In our case, I think part of the reason why this happened is because the vendors wanted access to the professors and grad students involved in the research projects seemed like they would have promising commercial value, such as RAID, RISC, Postgres, and NOW. -- Jon Forrest Research Computing Support College of Chemistry 173 Tan Hall University of California Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-1460 510-643-1032 jlforr...@berkeley.edu _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org sponsored by Penguin Computing To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
