Re: Scaling noise

Gerrit Huizenga
2003-09-04T03:48:04Z

On Wed, 03 Sep 2003 20:02:27 PDT, Larry McVoy wrote:

> The problem with the old school approach of low/middle/high is that
> everyone knows that they are shouldering far more than the material
> costs plus a little profit when buying high end. They are paying for
> the R&D. The market for those machines is very small and the volumes
> never approach the level where the R&D is lost in the noise, that's a
> significant fraction of the purchase price. That's OK as long as there
> is no alternative but with all the household name companies like Google,
> Amazon, Yahoo, etc demonstrating that racks of 1U boxes is a far better
> answer the market for the big boxes is shrinking. Which is exactly what
> Dell was saying. I dunno, maybe I'm completely confused but I see his
> point. I don't see yours.

Hmm. Did you check your data with respect to Amazon, Yahoo, etc.? Not
saying I know anything different, but I think you didn't check before
you made that statement.

gerrit