Check out the end of the following article: http://news.com.com/Sun+looks+to+chip+performance+to+bring+brighter+days/2100-1010_3-5362700.html

The suggestion is made that a single ROCK processor (a single chip, which fits into a single socket, which could fit in a single rack unit server, or even in a blade form factor) could be as powerful as a $3.7M E25K server (which has 144 1.2GHz cores). The public roadmap shows the ROCK processor shipping in 2008.

Think about that.. a 42RU rack could deliver the compute power of $100M in today's IT dollars.

My goodness.... How things are going to change in just a few years. The rate of change continues to accelerate. The high-tech shakeup will intensify. Adapt or die!! Thankfully, Sun appears to be making the right decisions on many fronts (Soluitons, SOA, S/W & JES, Utility, Grids, Storage, Dev Tools, OpenSource, Desktops, Linux/x86, Fujitsu, Microsoft, Partners, etc....). Directed and inspired innovation will drive the revolution.

Me... I'm holding onto my stock options... Believing that lead can turn back into gold in the  thermonuclear furnace of our G2-class Sun.

September 23, 2004 10:09 AM EDT Permalink

A quick blog entry on blogging...

I find it amazing that a company with >30K opinionated employees, would allow any (and encourage all) to post uncensored thoughts to a public (and popular) venue, on Sun's letterhead. I like it. It conveys trust, an open mind, and more evidence that we work for a progressive company that is still fun! I do wonder if our lawyers have figured out what we're doing? :-)

This is quite a leap from the old days (a couple years ago). The institutional fortress walls are falling, brick by brick. Open source is exposing what we used to consider sacred... our Solaris code base. VPN turns a hotel room, a friend's home, a customer site, or a table at Starbucks, into a secure network connection with the same privileges as if you were sitting in a guard protected, badge accessed corporate office. Wireless Portals give me access to my Corporate e-mail, calendars, LDAP directories, etc, from my Treo 600, from anywhere SprintPCS can reach me. Partners are joining us at key events in which futures are disclosed. So, publicly viewable BLOGs are just the next logical step. Even JS has a BLOG read by tens of thousands of customers, competitors, and employees.

According to: http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,699971,00.html  I'm one of the first 100 or so at Sun to BLOG! Doesn't mean much now... But maybe I'll feel like Andy B 15 years from now... one of the Original Sun BLOGGERS returns to find Sun working on the Next.Next Generation of computing! :-)

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