[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[lawrencedo99 at gmail.com]

On Saturday, June 11, 2016 at 3:39:22 PM UTC+12, David Froble wrote:

> Google is not going to be purchasing hardware from anyone, they build
> their own. 

They buy the same commodity off-the-shelf parts as anyone else. They don’t make chips, or motherboards, or hard drives, or network interfaces.

The one thing they don’t skimp on is power supplies. That’s because the single biggest cost in running such high-scale data centres is ... the electricity bill.

> My favorite proprietary product scales quite well.  Have never had a capacity
> problem.

I suspect trying to run that number of instances alone would crash your licence manager...

> How many Googles are there, or will there be?

You mean modern, innovative, growing companies not tied to legacy ways of doing things? More and more.