From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>, "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Scaling noise
Date: Wed, 03 Sep 2003 11:17:56 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <89360000.1062613076@flay> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030903173213.GC5769@work.bitmover.com>
>> Back to the original off-topic...
>> An OEM can spin their motivation to focus on smaller systems in 3 ways:
>>
>> 1. large server sales are a small % of industry units
>> 2. large server sales are a small % of industry revenue
>> 3. large server sales are a small % of industry profits
>>
>> Only 1 is true.
>
> How about some data to back up that statement?
>
> Sun: ~11B/year and losing money, heavily server based
> Dell: ~38B/year and making money, 99% small box based
>
> If you were gambling with _your_ money, would you invest in Sun or Dell?
Errm, IBM is gambling with _their_ money, as are others such as HP,
and they're making big iron.
So do you believe they're all just completely stupid, and unable to read
their own sales figures? Or is it just a vast conspiracy to promote large
SMP / NUMA boxes because of ... something?
Sun is not loosing money because they're "server based". It's because
they're locked into Solaris and SPARC, and customers by and large
don't want that. Their machines are probably rather overpriced vs using
ia32 hardware as well. Your 1 dimensional extension of logic is ...
unimpressive.
M.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-09-03 18:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 149+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-09-03 17:07 Scaling noise Brown, Len
2003-09-03 17:32 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 18:07 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 18:07 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 18:25 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 23:47 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 23:52 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 23:55 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-03 18:28 ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2003-09-03 18:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 20:11 ` Diego Calleja García
2003-09-03 18:11 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 19:56 ` Daniel Gryniewicz
2003-09-03 18:17 ` Martin J. Bligh [this message]
2003-09-04 0:36 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04 2:21 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04 2:34 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04 2:48 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04 3:02 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04 3:46 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2003-09-04 4:41 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-10 15:02 ` Timothy Miller
2003-09-10 15:12 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-28 1:51 ` Paul Jakma
2003-09-28 3:13 ` Steven Cole
2003-09-29 0:47 ` Paul Jakma
2003-10-22 1:22 ` Paul Jakma
2003-10-22 3:46 ` Steven Cole
2003-09-04 3:16 ` David Lang
2003-09-04 3:45 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-04 4:51 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04 3:47 ` Davide Libenzi
2003-09-04 4:16 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04 7:43 ` Davide Libenzi
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2003-09-10 15:14 John Bradford
2003-09-10 10:01 John Bradford
2003-09-10 11:35 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-10 13:46 ` Bill Davidsen
2003-09-08 6:21 Brown, Len
2003-09-08 9:21 ` Eric W. Biederman
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2003-09-03 15:33 ` Ihar 'Philips' Filipau
2003-09-03 9:41 Brown, Len
2003-09-03 11:02 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2003-09-03 11:19 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 11:47 ` Matthias Andree
2003-09-03 18:00 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 18:05 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 18:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 18:15 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 18:26 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 18:32 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 19:46 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 20:13 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 20:31 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 20:48 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-03 21:21 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 21:29 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-03 21:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 21:46 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04 0:07 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-04 1:06 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04 1:10 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04 1:32 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-04 1:46 ` David Lang
2003-09-04 1:51 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-04 2:31 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04 2:40 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-04 2:50 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04 3:49 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-04 2:48 ` Steven Cole
2003-09-04 17:05 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-09-07 21:18 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-07 23:07 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-07 23:47 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-08 0:57 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-08 3:55 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-08 4:47 ` Stephen Satchell
2003-09-08 5:25 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-08 8:32 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-09-04 0:58 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04 1:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-04 2:49 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04 3:15 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-04 3:38 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-05 1:34 ` Robert White
2003-09-03 19:11 ` Steven Cole
2003-09-03 19:36 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 7:10 John Bradford
2003-09-03 7:38 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-03 11:14 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-08 20:05 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-03 5:02 Samium Gromoff
2003-09-03 4:03 Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 4:12 ` Roland Dreier
2003-09-03 4:20 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 15:12 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-03 4:18 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-09-03 4:29 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 4:33 ` CaT
2003-09-03 5:08 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 5:44 ` Mikael Abrahamsson
2003-09-03 6:12 ` Bernd Eckenfels
2003-09-03 12:09 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-03 15:10 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-03 16:01 ` Jörn Engel
2003-09-03 16:21 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-03 19:41 ` Mike Fedyk
2003-09-03 20:11 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04 20:36 ` Rik van Riel
2003-09-04 20:47 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04 21:30 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-03 8:11 ` Giuliano Pochini
2003-09-03 14:25 ` Steven Cole
2003-09-03 12:47 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-09-03 15:31 ` Steven Cole
2003-09-04 1:50 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-09-04 1:52 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04 4:42 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-08 19:40 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-04 2:18 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-04 2:19 ` Steven Cole
2003-09-04 2:35 ` William Lee Irwin III
2003-09-04 2:40 ` Steven Cole
2003-09-04 3:20 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-04 3:07 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-09-08 19:27 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-08 19:12 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-03 16:37 ` Kurt Wall
2003-09-06 15:08 ` Pavel Machek
2003-09-08 13:38 ` Alan Cox
2003-09-09 6:11 ` Rob Landley
2003-09-09 16:07 ` Ricardo Bugalho
2003-09-10 5:14 ` Rob Landley
2003-09-10 5:45 ` David Mosberger
2003-09-10 10:10 ` Ricardo Bugalho
2003-09-03 6:28 ` Anton Blanchard
2003-09-03 6:55 ` Nick Piggin
2003-09-03 15:23 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-03 15:39 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-03 15:50 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04 0:49 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04 2:21 ` Daniel Phillips
2003-09-04 2:35 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-09-04 2:46 ` Larry McVoy
2003-09-04 4:58 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-04 4:49 ` David S. Miller
2003-09-08 19:50 ` bill davidsen
2003-09-08 23:39 ` Peter Chubb
2003-09-03 17:16 ` William Lee Irwin III
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