[Info-vax] Where to locate software

[johnwallace4 at yahoo.co.uk]

On Saturday, 11 June 2016 06:44:50 UTC+1, lawren... at gmail.com  wrote:
> 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.

Google Facebook etc may not make systems themselves but they do
specify them and they do influence the design. The volume systems
they buy from outfits like Lenovo and others are not necesarily
the 'volume' systems available to the rest of the market, and even if
they were, the designs may not be appropriate for the market in general
(Google don't care if they serve the wrong adverts, a retailer might
care if they ship the wrong products or send the wrong bills).

There isn't room in the market for lots of outfits the size of Google.