The numbers you're quoting don't match your claims. You said "the cost of the hardware is pretty much a blip in comparison to rackspace, power and networking co

The numbers you're quoting don't match your claims. You said "the cost of the hardware is pretty much a blip in comparison to rackspace, power and networking costs." Then once you start listing numbers, the server costs $30k+ and the data center $400/mo. I'm pretty sure that $30k for a server is not a "blip" on ($30k + $15k) assuming a three year lifetime. Trying to make out like I'm coming it from some kind of hobbyist market segment point of view is a puzzling straw man. These products, which optimize for performance over performance/TCO$, are built with very valid niches in mind, and where the math works out it saves you a ton of money in software licensing or software development. They are not, as you seem to be claiming, positioned as sensible choices for wide deployment in datacenters. If that were the case, why bother with the rest of the SKUs!?