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I think you're seeing this project too much from the perspective of whether it will succeed/fail in the marketplace. That is not the point of research. This sho
by m0th87 16y ago
I think you're seeing this project too much from the perspective of whether it will succeed/fail in the marketplace. That is not the point of research. This should be viewed as an exploratory search for new paradigms in multicore computing. Some components might work out to something usable, most won't.
- russell 16y agoI agree with you completely. It is worth doing for what we learn, but what I was trying to say is that the real breakthroughs are going to come from other directions. The people who will get rich are probably the generation after that.
- _delirium 16y agoNot the original poster, but I think it'll fail in the sense of "won't actually invent and tie together all the new components that this press release claims will be invented and tied together", even without including marketplace considerations. However I agree that it'll likely produce interesting research advances and usable components, and some up-front overselling is probably unavoidable... saying something like, "we're initiating a collection of research projects to produce technologies that will be needed for a future generation of operating systems" isn't as good PR as saying, "we're building the next-gen operating system".