[Info-vax] Digital had it al(most)

[John Wallace]

On Aug 9, 11:19 pm, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spam... at vaxination.ca> wrote:
> John Smith (who cares if I'm the one @ HP - if here's even still there)
> wrote:
>
> >http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/08/google-as-xerox-parc/all/
>
> Good to know that some Digital DNA ended up at Google and wasn't lost.
>
> I was recently at a conference with a very interesting speaker on new vs
> old economy and new vs old companies.
>
> Much of it was focused on how the young and highly succesfull copanies
> such as Google are very different in how their are runned/managed
> because they are lead with people who no only understand the internet,
> but also dig how it runs and grew up with it.
>
> So it is interesting to see that despite this, Google still hired
> "mature" R&D folks.
>
> And it is interesting to see "mainframe" (alpha) mentality folks from
> DEC end up at Google and champion the "lets get a gazillion PCs to run
> Google instead of a few large servers".

Please bear in mind that for most of what Google does, it doesn't
matter much whether or not the answer is exactly right (what is
"exactly right" for a search engine or an ad-serving engine?) or
whether the service is available 24 x 7 or not. This somewhat
simplifies their approach to data availability and integrity, and
resilience in general.

This is not always an option for traditional datacentre applications.