Windows for supercomputers in the Autumn!
I came across this article
http://news.com.com/Windows+for+supe...l?tag=nefd.top announcing Windows for clusters etc by this year so I'm guessing around 2007 or so those Solitaire games are going to zip along now. A few quotes from the article from Software Architect Marvin Theimer: Quote:
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Expect a few press blitzes when some fortune 500 is levered or bribed into switching away from Linux, and glowing comparisons from shills like Gartner, oh yeah, a blizzard of FUD starting any day now too - bleah |
Interesting, but I bet they'll have a hard time competing:
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Maybe for very small clusters - 5-10 machines, say. I think the funniest part of the article, though, is this: Quote:
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Idiotic move, Gates. Not only are you alienating users on the client side, you're now seemingly bent on alienating Enterprise users who were just beginning to trust M$ again thanks to Win2K3's being a lot more secure and flexible than previous versions of Windows Server. Smooth move, exlax!! :D . . . which is fine by me since I've been encouraging clients to go the *nix route. Quote:
Also, to make things worse for M$ - You used to be able to connect two PCs together in an undocumented way to share storage directly on a SCSI bus. With Win2K3 that hack is no longer possible so now you NEED a SAN or external shared-SCSI storage device. With that requirement bumping up the cost in comparison to *nix's clustering capabilities AND crippling of the exact services you WANT an active/active cluster for --- well, they've begun their corporate suicidal move. Granted, M$ can bleed money for a couple of decades before going under, but their decisions over the last few years, with their "antipiracy" (actually, anti-wine) moves, removal of WinFS from Longhorn, and this, more and more corporate and consumer-level customers are going to be taking a more-than-passing-glance look at what Linux can do for them. |
Windoze for supercomputing,... that's a hoot.
In the zero-hour of an important weather algorythm,... blue screen of death!!! Yeah, great... M$ is doing a lot of things that will seriously enhance Linux's chances of greater success,... including their new licensing initiative. |
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