BM Seer Unofficial thoughts from an anonymous Sun employee

Box that changed the world: Sun takes it one step further to computing.

Tuesday Jun 05, 2007

A podcast of Scientific American, covers container history. It is an interview with Professor Arthur Donovan who wrote a book about cargo containerization.

Go to: http://www.sciam.com/podcast/
Look for May 30, 2007: Science Talk "How Cargo Containers Shrank the World and Transformed Trade"

Important 2006 Anniversaries

  • 50th Anniversary of container ship voyage
  • 50th Anniversary of federal interstate highway act
  • Announcement of Sun's "Project Blackbox" (datacenter container)
  • Will Sun's Project Blackbox create a "common culture of the datacenter." ...or are we still going to waste money with customized datacenters that all basically look alike?

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