A good point, and probably helped Amazon's success. But this is no different than Sun. Have you seen the margin on SPARQ processors and machines? Sun had plenty

A good point, and probably helped Amazon's success. But this is no different than Sun. Have you seen the margin on SPARQ processors and machines? Sun had plenty of cash to bootstrap their grid computing effort. The problem for Sun was a Strategy Tax. Sun was in the business of selling big iron systems. Their grid effort was an inverse of this model: 1- Sun had to pay for/run the systems (or sub contract it) 2- Why buy a big system from Sun when you can just use what you need? 3- Sun's sales organization was not designed to sell utility computing to medium sized businesses.