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 [West Coast Grid] Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun: To put it another way, it has an opportunity to manage customers' transition from the computer OS to the Web OS in a way that furthers its own interests - and damages Google's.An excellent point, Nick. When I heard about Microsoft's increased capital expenditures, the idea of offering some easy transition from desktop to web OS hadn't really occurred to me.

 [ | Between the Lines | ZDNet.com] Permalink: Sun Grid rising at network.com: In his latest blog post, Jonathan Schwartz laments that the slow transformation toward multitenant grids behind corporate firewalls at the same time as he promotes Sun's forthcoming Grid service (starting with 5,000 CPU sockets, a mix of Ultrasparc and Opteron), which will live under the network.com URL (which came with the StorageTek acquisition. The Sun president and COO, along with others like Nick Carr, is a true believer in the grid as the logical next step in computing, where compute resources will be centralized and metered like electric power. 

 [Yet Another Software Blog] Doom! Doom I say!: Compared to electricity (Nick’s favorite analogy), what are the big, up-front overhead costs in corporate computing that need to be amortized across a user base that’s larger than the corporation? In the cases of electricity this is fairly obvious, a power plant costs a ton of dough.

 [Grid Meter | InfoWorld] Eyes on EMC's Grid Computing Efforts in '06: Acxiom's home-grown Grid software has been the envy of other data processing vendors, and the Grid community has a high opinion of the talents of Acxiom's Terry Talley (chief architect) and Alex Dietz (CIO). While they've secured remarkable results with their Grid over the last few years, they've been relatively quiet about the intricacies of how it works, because of the competitive advantage it brings to the organization.

Mobilog: What I did say it I don't think it's right from an artist standpoint and a consumer standpoint that every song be $0.99 regardless of its quality." The same is true for albums, he said, some may be worth more or less than $9.99. " I do not think that a single retailer ahould simply dictate that there are two price points and two price points only, whether artists like it, where publishing companies like, whether consumers like it." He added, "I don't want to leave here with the impression one way or the other that $0.99 is a thing of the past from the music industry standpoint because I don't believe that is the case."

 [Roughtype.com] Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: Is the server industry doomed?: As Google engineers Luiz Andre Barroso, Jeffrey Dean and Urs Hoelzle write in their IEEE Micro article Web Search for a Planet, "many applications share the essential traits that allow for a PC-based cluster architecture." IT expert Paul Strassmann goes further in arguing that Google's infrastructure serves as a template for the future. "Network-centric systems," he says, "cannot be built on [traditional] workgroup-centric architecture." If large, expert-run utility grids supplant subscale corporate data centers as the engines of computing, the need to buy branded servers would evaporate.

[Grid.weblogsinc.com] The Grid Computing Weblog: In a nearby space Adam Bosworth, one of the Google guys who has the sleeves of his lab coat rolled up has also been talking up MySQL as a possible solution to distributed data on the Web. Bosworth also has the rather controversial suggestion that the content distribution capabilities offered by RSS 2.0 and Atom with their "sloppy" approach to extensibility may provide the necessary inter-system protocols for moving data around.

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