To: Larry McVoy <lm@bitmover.com>
cc: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>, "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>,
       Giuliano Pochini <pochini@shiny.it>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Reply-To: Gerrit Huizenga <gh@us.ibm.com>
From: Gerrit Huizenga <gh@us.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: Scaling noise 
In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 03 Sep 2003 20:02:27 PDT.
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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
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