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Original Post: He does it again!
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Yes, within a paragraph Jonathan Schwartz again shows that he has no business managing mice, much less humans:
I'm watching with amusement as IBM prepares to stub its toe with their new, curiously named "OpenPower" low-end boxes.
Now, I will freely admit I am entirely confused by what they're doing. Why on earth would you ship a proprietary computer that doesn't run your own operating system (AIX)? If I were trying to freak out my installed base, that's exactly what I'd do.
Hmmm - possibly because they recognize something Schwartz never will - the smell of money. He's confused on something very simple - IBM is happy to make money on hardware they can mark up while keeping the overall costs low by using an OS they don't have to maintain themselves. Sun has yet to figure this out; they still think that people might care about Solaris on intel. Yeah, all the people who care live over here
As to the rest of his article singing the praises of the massively parallel Sparc - sure, it's a cool piece of technology. I'd say he ought to look at the size of the market for those kinds of systems - for every one prospect who both needs (and can afford) such a system, there are scads more who will just buy commodity intel boxes and slap them in racks. Heck, he could ask the Cray guys...
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