7 Jun
2013
7 Jun
'13
3:40 p.m.
On Thu, 6 Jun 2013, Jerry Kemp - other wrote:
<HUMOR>
The engineers response was somewhere along the lines of "given Oracle's
data center focus and work load, building this type of system would be
the equivalent of removing the ox from the plow, and replacing the ox
with a hundred chickens".
Sounds about right. ARM is not currently being used because it's
"better"...it's being used because it's "cheap.
It's one pf the current hipster trends. Like The Cloud?, .io domains,
Node.js, and GitHub being a social network.
I once found a startup that'd help you create your own startup! I'm
waiting for the second "dot-IO" bust.
true story.
</HUMOR>
Jerry
disclaimer: yes, I know Solaris has already been ported to ARM.
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