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In this
article from cbronline, McNealy almost gets utility computing but not
quite. Yes, having a company like Sun handle your computing/datacenter
needs in one uber package does reduce cost initially but there is a big
problem long term. What might that problem be, I wonder?
Most
Californians got broad experience in the long term problems with the
recent energy crisis in California. The utility model over the long term
only works when the utility company can place the concerns and needs of
customer before its own. In the past century we have come to conclusion
that normal profit companies cannot match this level of accountiability
and thus we have accountable monoplistic utility companies here in the USA.
Given Suns's recent past history in fragmenting Unix to get a competitive
edge, I think SUN has a long way to go in convincing IT customers on the
accountability part. BTW the clearest example of jalopy datacenter that
McNealy talks about is Google, they are still saving money by doing it
their way in not buying SUN servers. Would McNealy's plan then push them
into SUN servers over their own needs? Remember Unix was fragmented over
the objections of the end users and many IT managment remember that battle
and now are in the buying position. This is also true that other Unix
fragmenters would have the same hard sale with the utility model of
computing in data centers given this past history.
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