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> They also had the resources to pull something like Amazon's EC2 I think they tried - if you look up Schwartz's blog from a couple of years ago, he was making
by ableal 17y ago
> They also had the resources to pull something like Amazon's EC2
I think they tried - if you look up Schwartz's blog from a couple of years ago, he was making the argument that you should buy computing power like you buy electric power ("Chief Electricity Officer", I think he said ;-).
I suppose they just could not execute/sell.
P.S. Five years ago, actually: http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/looking_back_on_commodities http://blogs.sun.com/jonathan/entry/looking_back_on_commodit...
- lallysingh 17y agoThey were using older grid technologies. Instead of a VM, you put in a terribly-documented job-script thing that was sorta like a shell script but had extra stuff you needed in there. I spent weeks trying to make it work, and got nowhere. Took me maybe 3 hours to setup in EC2. It's what happens when management falls so much in love with the idea that they never touch the execution.